This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ...has given tasteful print dresses to the wives and daughters of men who could not have borne the price of such productions in past times. The analogy is very close throughout. In the one case cotton, and in the other paper, is made in one continuous length; in both cases this length is wound round a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ...has given tasteful print dresses to the wives and daughters of men who could not have borne the price of such productions in past times. The analogy is very close throughout. In the one case cotton, and in the other paper, is made in one continuous length; in both cases this length is wound round a beam or roller; in both cases there are engraved cylinders, as many as there are to be colours, and each having a device of its own; in both casesthere are as many troughs of colour as there are cylinders; in both cases the cylinders feed themselves with colour, but in such a way as to take up the colour on the raised parts in the one case, but on the sunk parts in the other; in both cases the endless web is drawn in between rollers, and made to pass over all the colour-wetted cylinders in succession; in both cases the complete pattern is seen to be printed by the time the material leaves the machine; and in both cases the printed strip undergoes a rapid drying process. The Great Exhibition, among its numerous specimens illustrative of paper-hangings, contained some which showed in a marked way the facility now attained by the cylinder method. Among Messrs. I-laywood's contributions were wall-paper in fourteen colours, all produced at once by fourteen cylinders in one machine! Many are the means adopted to give a decorative character to paper-hang ings, besides the mere use of colours. Some specimens have a glossy ground, to which the attractive name of satin is applied; this effect is produced bythe careful application of polishing powder to a surface painted the proper tint. Some have an appearance imitative of figured or watered silk, produced by passing the paper between slightly-heated rollers, which have the requisite design...
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None. Good. An uncommon publication, of twelve articles from George Dodd's 'Cyclopaedia of the Industry of All Nations'. This issue contains twelve articles under the title 'Dodd's Curiosities of Industry' and was issued under H Lea's imprint. This particular copy is lacking the title page, although collation matches the Lea publication. In the same year Routledge issued a copy containing sixteen of the articles, under the title 'The Curiosities of Industry and the Applied Sciences'. First edition thus, the first edition of this collected issue. This twelve chapter issue is scarcer than the sixteen chapter issue. The article on "Calculating and registering machines" contains an account of Babbage's Difference Engine no. 1 and a brief notice of the Analytical Engine. Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer. Comprising of: Glass and Its Manufacture Iron and Its Manufacture Calculating and Registering Machines India Rubber and Gutta Percha Industrial Applications of Electricity Gold Paper Printing Its Modern Varieties Corn and Bread What they Owe to Machinery A Ship in the Nineteenth Century Fire and Light Wool and Silk, Fur and Feathers The chapters to this work were originally issued separately. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, sound, with loss to the head and tail of spine. Minor bumping to the extremities. Prior owner's bibliographic notes to the front pastedown. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages 3-20 of 'Gold' is loosening. Pages are bright. Chips to edge of page 21 to 'Wool and Silk'. Pages are very clean. Good.
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8vo. 22cm, c. [320]pp., original blind decorated green cloth over boards, title & contents label in frame border laid down on the upper cloth, tight back plain cloth spine, a few dust soiling marks in the text, binding bit worn on the edges, hinges bit shaken but sound, library bookplate on the front endpapers partially removed, very good condition, Scarce. ~ A series of essays on the manufacturing industry by English journalist, George Dodd (1808 1881). Subjects include: glass, iron, wood, calculating machines, india rubber & gutta percha, electricity, gold, paper, printing, cotton & flax, corn & bread, ships, fire & light, wool & silk, steam & water power. George Dodd is best remembered for his book "The Food of London"
