. The universal assistant, and complete mechanic : containing over one million industrial facts, calculations, receipts, processes, trade secrets, rules, business forms, legal items, etc., in every occupation, from the household to the manufactory. in the presence of thousands of spectators. In milling appliances, he invented the erain elevator, the conveyer, the driU,the descender, and the hopper-boi. besides ether labor-saving inventions of greatutility to the miller. He also wrote the Yonng Steam Engineers Gnide, anda highly valuable work entitled The Young MiUwrights Guide. Althougheqnally
. The universal assistant, and complete mechanic : containing over one million industrial facts, calculations, receipts, processes, trade secrets, rules, business forms, legal items, etc., in every occupation, from the household to the manufactory. in the presence of thousands of spectators. In milling appliances, he invented the erain elevator, the conveyer, the driU,the descender, and the hopper-boi. besides ether labor-saving inventions of greatutility to the miller. He also wrote the Yonng Steam Engineers Gnide, anda highly valuable work entitled The Young MiUwrights Guide. Althougheqnally deserving of fame, he failed to reap the snbetantial honors accorded t«Watt in England. PAPrEB Machk, is nsed for fancy articles, such as the covers for albnms, ink-ftands, blotting boofc?, paper knives, etc., as well as for the cells of galvanicbatMries. It is obtained from old paper made inso a pulp with a solution of lime,and gum or starch, pressed into the form required, coated with linseed oil, bakedat a high temperature, and finally varnished. The pulp is sometimes mi- ed withday, sand, chalk, etc., and other kinds are made of a paste of palp and UoM^•oa oaed for omaxneatiag wood, inlaying, etc ZTAXS LOCOMOTIVE, SUXDET ITEMS. 575. Primtxg Powder for Percussio- Caps.—Reduce 40 parts ofgunpowder to very fine dust; mix to a thin paste with water, next addchlorate of potissa, 21 parts, previonsly reduced to a very fine jx^wder:make the paste rather thin and deposit a small drop at the bottomof the cap. The mixture is liable to explode if incautionsly hnndled. Balloox Varxish.—Melt ludia nibber in small pieces with itsweight of linseed oil, and thin with spirits turpentine. Artificial —Yellow resin, 4 parts; vermilion, 1 part; meltvery fine for ornamental work, &c. Gold Beaters Skix is preimred by extending the peritonealmembranes of citcum, washing them first with plaui water, then witha solution of alum and lastly with a solution of and spices. Ho
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