Synopsis of Contents.
- Bookbinding.
- Bronzes and Bronzing.
- Candles.
- Cement.
- Cleaning.
- Colourwashing.
- Concretes.
- Dipping Acids.
- Drawing Office Details.
- Drying Oils.
- Dynamite.
- Electro-Metallurgy—(Cleaning, Dipping, Scratch-brushing, Batteries, Baths, and Deposits of every description).
- Enamels.
- Engraving on Wood, Copper, Gold, Silver, Steel, and Stone.
- Etching and Aqua Tint.
- Firework Making—(Rockets, Stars, Rains, Gerbes, Jets, Tour-billons, Candles, Fires, Lances, Lights, Wheels, Fire-balloons, and minor Fireworks).
- Fluxes.
- Foundry Mixtures.
- Freezing.
- Fulminates.
- Furniture Creams, Oils, Polishes, Lacquers, and Pastes.
- Gilding.
- Glass Cutting, Cleaning, Frosting, Drilling, Darkening, Bending, Staining, and Painting.
- Glass Making.
- Glues.
- Gold.
- Graining.
- Gums.
- Gun Cotton.
- Gunpowder.
- Horn Working.
- Indiarubber.
- Japans, Japanning, and kindred processes.
- Lacquers.
- Lathing.
- Lubricants.
- Marble Working.
- Matches.
- Mortars.
- Nitro-Glycerine.
- Oils.
- Paper.
- Paper Hanging.
- Painting in Oils, in Water Colours, as well as Fresco, House, Transparency, Sign, and Carriage Painting.
- Photography.
- Plastering.
- Polishes.
- Pottery—(Clays, Bodies, Glazes, Colours, Oils, Stains, Fluxes, Enamels, and Lustres).
- Scouring.
- Silvering.
- Soap.
- Solders.
- Tanning.
- Taxidermy.
- Tempering Metals.
- Treating Horn, Mother-o'-Pearl, and like substances.
- Varnishes, Manufacture and Use of.
- Veneering.
- Washing.
- Waterproofing.
- Welding.
Crown 8vo, cloth, 485 pages, with illustrations, 5s.
WORKSHOP RECEIPTS,
SECOND SERIES.
By ROBERT HALDANE.
Synopsis of Contents.
| Acidimetry and Alkalimetry. | Glycerine. |
| Albumen. | Gut. |
| Alcohol. | Hydrogen peroxide. |
| Alkaloids. | Ink. |
| Baking-powders. | Iodine. |
| Bitters. | Iodoform. |
| Bleaching. | Isinglass. |
| Boiler Incrustations. | Ivory substitutes. |
| Cements and Lutes. | Leather. |
| Cleansing. | Luminous bodies. |
| Confectionery. | Magnesia. |
| Copying. | Matches. |
| Disinfectants. | Paper. |
| Dyeing, Staining, and Colouring. | Parchment. |
| Essences. | Perchloric acid. |
| Extracts. | Potassium oxalate. |
| Fireproofing. | Preserving. |
| Gelatine, Glue, and Size. |
Pigments, Paint, and Painting: embracing the preparation of Pigments, including alumina lakes, blacks (animal, bone, Frankfort, ivory, lamp, sight, soot), blues (antimony, Antwerp, cobalt, cæruleum, Egyptian, manganate, Paris, Péligot, Prussian, smalt, ultramarine), browns (bistre, hinau, sepia, sienna, umber, Vandyke), greens (baryta, Brighton, Brunswick, chrome, cobalt, Douglas, emerald, manganese, mitis, mountain, Prussian, sap, Scheele's, Schweinfurth, titanium, verdigris, zinc), reds (Brazilwood lake, carminated lake, carmine, Cassius purple, cobalt pink, cochineal lake, colcothar, Indian red, madder lake, red chalk, red lead, vermilion), whites (alum, baryta, Chinese, lead sulphate, white lead—by American, Dutch, French, German, Kremnitz, and Pattinson processes, precautions in making, and composition of commercial samples—whiting, Wilkinson's white, zinc white), yellows (chrome, gamboge, Naples, orpiment, realgar, yellow lakes); Paint (vehicles, testing oils, driers, grinding, storing, applying, priming, drying, filling, coats, brushes, surface, water-colours, removing smell, discoloration; miscellaneous paints—cement paint for carton-pierre, copper paint, gold paint, iron paint, lime paints, silicated paints, steatite paint, transparent paints, tungsten paints, window paint, zinc paints); Painting (general instructions, proportions of ingredients, measuring paint work; carriage painting—priming paint, best putty, finishing colour, cause of cracking, mixing the paints, oils, driers, and colours, varnishing, importance of washing vehicles, re-varnishing, how to dry paint; woodwork painting).