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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

  • 1886

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An extensive recipe book, principally derived from German technical literature, includes "an accurate and compendious collection of approved receipts and processes of practical application in the [chemical] industries and for general purposes." Digitization includes the work's frontmatter and elaborately illustrated cover.

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  • Shelfmark TP151 .B36 1886

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Brannt, William T. (William Theodore). “The Techno-Chemical Receipt Book.” Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird & Co., 1886. TP151 .B36 1886. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/rk89ncz.

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