Inventions

Here are details of one of the books currently on my bedtime reading shelf; it promises to be great fun:

A
HISTORY
OF
INVENTIONS, DISCOVERIES,
AND ORIGINS.

By JOHN BECKMANN,
PROFESSOR OF ŒCONOMY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN.

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN,
By WILLIAM JOHNSTON.

Fourth Edition,
CAREFULLY REVISED AND ENLARGED BY
WILLIAM FRANCIS, Ph.D., F.L.S.,
EDITOR OF THE CHEMICAL GAZETTE;
AND
J. W. GRIFFITH, M.D., F.L.S.,
LICENTIATE OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS.

VOL. I.

LONDON:
HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.
1846.

 

CONTENTS.

	Page
Italian Book-keeping	1
Odometer	5
Machine for noting down Music	12
Refining Gold and Silver Ore by Quicksilver	14
Cold or Dry Gilding	19
Gold Varnish	20
Tulips	22
Canary Bird	32
Archil	35
Magnetic Cures	43
Secret Poison	47
Wooden Bellows	63
Coaches	68
Water-clocks, Clepsydras	82
Tourmaline	86
Speaking-trumpet	93
Ananas.—Pine-apple	102
Sympathetic Ink	106
Diving-bell	111
Coloured Glass.—Artificial Gems	123
Sealing-wax	137
Corn-mills	147
Verdigris, or Spanish Green	171
Saffron	175
Alum	180vi
Falconry	198
Turf	205
Artichoke	212
Saw-mills	222
Stamped Paper	230
Insurance	234
Adulteration of Wine	245
Artificial Pearls	258
Paving of Streets	269
Collections of Natural Curiosities	282
Chimneys	295
Hungary Water	315
Cork	318
Apothecaries	326
Clocks and Watches	340
Clocks and Watches (additional)	355
Quarantine	373
Paper-hangings	379
Kermes. Cochineal	385
Writing-pens	405
Wire-drawing	414
Buck-wheat	425
Saddles	431
Stirrups	435
Horse-shoes	442
Floating of Wood	454
Lace	463
Ultramarine	467
Cobalt, Zaffer, Smalt	478
Turkeys	487
Butter	499
Aurum Fulminans	509
Garden-flowers	512