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The artist's guide and mechanic's own book : embracing the portion of chemistry applicable to the mechanic arts with abstracts of electricity, galvanism, magnetism, pneumatics, optics, astronomy, and mechanical philosophy : also mechanical exercises in iron, steel, lead, zinc, copper, and tin soldering and a variety of useful receipts, extending to every profession and occupation of life, particularly dyeing, silk, woollen, cotton, and leather

Pilkington, James, active · 1856 · Scanned text · Free in the US

148,336 words · about 10 h 23 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Free in the US: this text is in the public domain in the United States; it may still be in copyright elsewhere.

Licence: PD-US · Published 1856 (before 1884; date from the PleIAs English-PD record). The dataset curator states the whole collection is public domain in all regions (curator assertion, not independently verified); treated as public domain in the US.

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About this book

Author
Pilkington, James, active
Language
English
Published
1856
Length
148,336 words · about 10 h 23 min
Sections
7 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain in the United States

 

Contents (7)
  1. Front matter about 1 min
  2. Preface about 10 h 2 min
  3. Appendix about 14 min
  4. II. Hams, to cure . 244 about 3 min
  5. Index about 2 min
  6. Index To Supplement about 1 min
  7. INDEX TO SUPn, EM ENT about 1 min

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