Specification of George Edward Dering
Subtitle: preserving or preventing decomposition in vegetable and animal substances, &c
Publisher: Great Seal Patent Office
Published: 1854
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Electric batteries; Wood preservatives; Sewage; Disinfection
Description: Patent for preserving timber and fabrics using sulphate of zinc and chloride of zinc with hydrochloric acid added to galvanic batteries which can also be used for "disinfecting and deodorizing fecal and other matters... to render them serviceable as manure"
Notes: At head of title: A.D. 1853. No. 740.

"George Edward Dering, of Lockleys, in the county of Hertford".