Notes for a History of Lead, and an Inquiry Into the Development of the Manufacture of White Lead and Lead Oxides (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

William Henry Pulsifer

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ISBN 10 : 1332436021 ISBN 13 : 9781332436026

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Notes for a History of Lead, and an Inquiry Into the Development of the Manufacture of White Lead and Lead Oxides

This compilation is the result of a promise to a friend to prepare a paper upon the history OF lead, to be read at a social meeting of a trade club. My interest in the subject persisted after the paper was prepared, and I continued to collect notes, at such times as a busy man of affairs could spare, with no purpose or plan other than to gratify a thoroughly aroused interest in the subject, and as a relaxation and a relief from the friction and perplexities of business.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This compilation is the result of a promise to a friend to prepare a paper upon the History of Lead, to be read at a social meeting of a trade club. My interest in the subject persisted after the paper was prepared, and I continued to collect notes, at such times as a busy man of affairs could spare, with no purpose or plan other than to gratify a thoroughly aroused interest in the subject, and as a relaxation and a relief from the friction and perplexities of business. Le Febvre, in his Compendious Body of Chymistry, published early in the seventeenth century, says: Lead is the vilest and most abject of metals; and bookmakers generally have entertained as mean an opinion of it. They have treated its chemistry and metallurgy exhaustively, but its history seems to have been neglected, as I have been unable to find a work devoted to this subject, or even a satisfactory historical sketch in such technological works as have come under my observation. I have been tempted, therefore, to put into permanent form a summary of the notes I have collected.
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• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1332436021
• ISBN 13: 9781332436026
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 398
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