The Techno-Chemical Receipt Book: containing several thousand receipts : covering the latest, most important and most useful discoveries in chemical technology, and their practical application in the arts and the industries / edited chiefly from the German of Drs. Winckler, Elsner, Heintze, Mierzinski, Jacobsen, Koller and Heinzerling. With additions by William T. Brannt, Graduate of the Royal Agricultural College of Eldena, Prussia, and William H. Wahl, PH.D. (Heid), Secretary of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia; author of "Galvanoplastic Manipulations." Illustrated by Seventy-eight Engravings.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brannt, William T. (William Theodore), 1844- editor.

Wahl, William H. (William Henry), 1848-1909, editor.

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chemistry, Technical.

Formulas, recipes, etc.

Formularies as Topic.

Nostrums--chemistry.

recipes.

Medical Subjects:

Formularies as Topic.

Nostrums--chemistry.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

[2], xxxii, 495, [1] pages illustrations 19 cm

Distribution:

London, Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington,

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Henry Carey Baird & Co., Industrial Publishers, Booksellers and Importers, 1886.

Contents:

Adulterations, Imitations, Etc. How to Detect Them

Alloys

Artificial Gems, Pearls, and Turkish Beads

Bitters, Cordials, Elixirs, Liqueurs, Ratafias and Essences; Extracts, Tinctures and Waters Used in Their Manufacture, and the Manner of Coloring Them

Blasting Compounds, Blasting Powder, Dynamite, Gun-Cotton, Gunpowder, Nitro-Glycerine, Fulminates, Etc.

Bleaching

Boiler Incrustations

Bone, Horn and Ivory-to Bleach and Dye Them, and Make Imitations and Compositions

Bronzing and Coloring of Metals

Building Materials, Artificial Building Stone, Mortars, Etc.

Cocoa and Chocolate

Celluloid, Caoutchouc, Gutta-Percha, and Similar Compositions

Cements, Pastes, and Putties

Chemical and Techno-Chemical Expedients, Preparations

Cleansing, Polishing, and Renovating Agents

Colored Chalks, Crayons, Pencils and Inks for Marking Linen, Etc.

Confectionery

Copying and Printing

Damaskeening Steel

Decoration, Ornamentation, Etc.

Dentifrices and Mouth Washes

Dyeing Woollen and Cotton Goods and Yarns, Silk, Straw Hats, Felt Hats, Kid Gloves, Horsehair Etc. Mordants

Electro-Plating, Galvanoplasty, Gilding, Nickelling, Silvering, Tinning, Etc.

Enamels and Enamelling

Feathers, Ostrich, Marabouts, Etc., How to Wash, Restore and Dye

Fire-Extinguishing Agents and Means of Making Tissues, Wood, Etc., Incombustible

Fireworks

Food and Food Preparations

Freezing Mixtures

Fruit and Other Syrups

Fuel and Heating. Heat Insulation (Non-Conducting Coverings)

Fusible Colors Used in Porcelain Painting

Glass. Composition of the Various Kinds of Colors for, and Processes for Enamelling, Engraving, Gilding, Silvering, Pulverizing, filing, Bending, Etc.

Glazes for Earthenware

Glass and Other Signs

Glue, Manufacture of

Household and Rural Economy

Illuminating Materials

Imitations, Substitutes, Etc.

Indigo, Indigotine, and Alizarine

Inks, Lithographic, Printing, and Writing

Jeweller's Foils

Lacquers and Varnishes

Leather, Tanning and Dyeing, Including Furs, Etc.

Liquors and Beverages: Beer, Brandy, Gin, Whiskey, Wines, Etc.

Lubricants for Machines, Wagons, Etc

Marine Glue

Matches

Metal Industry

Mustards

Oils and Fats-Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral

Oil-Paintings: How to Cleanse, Pack, and Varnish Them, and to Restore Gilt Work

Paints and Pigments. Grinding and Mixing Colors. Graining. Imitation of Marbles. Paints and Washes for Various Purposes, Etc.

(Continued) Paper and Paper Materials. Manufacture, Staining, Etc., Glass, Sand, and Emery Paper

Perfumery, Aromatic Vinegars, Cosmetics, Extracts, Hair Oils, Pomades, Powders, Washes, Fumigating Articles, Etc.

Pharmaceutical Preparations

Photography

Plaster of Paris Casts which can be Washed

Preserving Meat, Milk, Vegetables, Vegetable Substances, Wood, Etc., and Preservatives

Sealing-Wax and Wafers

Shoe-Blacking, Dressings, Etc.

Sizing and Dressing for Cotton, Wool, Straw, Etc.

Soap. Hard and Soft Soaps, Medicated and Toilet Soaps, Etc.

Soldering and Solders

Sugars, Glucose, Etc.

Textile Fabric and Tissues

Tobacco, Smoking Tobacco, Snuff, Sternutative Powders, Etc.

Vinegar: Manufacture of Ordinary and Fine Table Vinegars

Washing and Scouring. Manufacture of Washing-Blue, Etc.

Waste and Offal, Utilization of

Water-Glass (Soluble Glass) and Its Uses

Water-Proofing Compounds

Wax and Wax Preparations

Wood. Gilding, Polishing, Staining, Etc.

Yeasts. Manufacture of Pressed Yeast, Bakers' and Brewers' Yeast, Etc.

Addenda. Alloys; Antiseptic and Preservative Agents; Artificial Eyes, Manufacture of; Asbestos and Its Uses; Bleaching; Bookbinding, Gilding, and Ornamenting; Bronzing, Gilding, Silvering, Etc.; Building Materials; Celluloid. Imitations, Substitutes, Etc.; Cement Work; Cleansing, Polishing, and Renovating Agents; Color, Enamels, Cements, Glue, Varnishes, Water-Proofing Substances, Etc.; Copying; Explosive Agents; Glass; Horn-Combs, Manufacture of; Lubricants, Blacking, Etc.; Metal Industry; Miscellaneous; Oils and Fats; Paper; Straw, Bleaching and Dyeing of; Strength of Materials; Willow-Ware.

Notes:

"The principal aim ... has been to give an accurate and compendious collection of approved receipts and processes of practical application in the industries and for general purposes. The work is essentially what it claims to be - a receipt book; and all theoretical reasoning and historical detail have been omitted. Popular and simple descriptions have, whenever possible, been preferred to technical and scientific language."--Preface.

Text printed in two columns.

Includes index.

Red cloth boards decorated in black and gilt on front cover and spine.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.

Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.

Kislak copy has marginal marks in contents.

Kislak copy has notes about chemical substances written in ms. inside front and back covers.

Other Format:

Online version: Techno-chemical receipt book: containing several thousand receipts.

OCLC:

546179