28.9.20

A New Bright and not Poisonous Green.

Manufacturer and Builder 9, 1872 It is announced that a green of nearly the same brilliant shade as Paris-green may be obtained by taking ...

[432] Outdoor Whitewash of Lime or Chalk.

Manufacturer and Builder ?, 1872 A common remedy to make lime stand the weather is to put a solution of common alum in the lime whitewash....

27.9.20

Paints Made of Lead. Dutch Method of Making White-Lead.

Manufacturer and Builder 4, 1872 In former years the only white-lead known was that produced after time method invented in Holland, from w...

Lead-Pencils.

Manufacturer and Builder ?, 1872 Taking the whole world together there is perhaps no one article more extensively used than the lead-penci...

The Figure and Color of Wood.

Manufacturer and Builder 10, 1874 The figure of wood depends more upon the particular mixings and directions of the fibers, than upon any ...

26.9.20

[946] Printer's Ink.

Manufacturer and Builder 4, 1874 Boil gallons of linseed-oil to the consistency of a thick varnish; while hot add, during constant stirrin...

(1670) Aluminum Bronze.

Manufacturer and Builder 10, 1876 — In making Aluminum bronze, the metallic copper is first melted and the metallic aluminum added in the ...

25.9.20

The Color of Pure Water.

Manufacturer and Builder ?, 1883 An effort has been made by Herr Victor Meyer to determine the color of pure water. He has found that it i...

A Dead Black Paint.

The Manufacturer and Builder 2, 1886 Probably many of our readers, especially those who are the possessors of optical instruments, have, a...

Q. 4124. The Manufacture of India Ink.

Manufacturer and Builder 9, 1888 —Call you inform me through your Notes and Queries if I am right in ssupposing that the so-called "I...

A Dead Black Paint.

Manufacturer and builder 3, 1888 For a dead-black paint for the inside of tubes, use lampblack or artists' boneblack mixed with alcoho...

The Coloration of Glass.

Manufacturer and builder ?, 1870 The French chemist, Pelouze, states that glass, even when produced with the best crude materials, (pure s...

Asuntojen ulkomaalauksesta.

Kauhava 33, 15.8.1929 Kauhavalla 15 p. elok. 1929 Vaikka käsittelimmekin tätä asiaa jo aikaisemmin alkukesällä, otamme sen kuitenkin vie...

Colors Made Audible.

Manufacturer and builder ?, 1891 A beam of sunlight is thrown through a lens on a glass vessel that contains lamblack, colored silk or wor...

India Ink.

Manufacturer and builder ?, 1891 I find that a color apparently identical to India ink can be produced by the action of sulphuric acid on ...

24.9.20

How to Produce Paints of Various Colors.

Manufacturer and builder ?, 1891 French Red. This color is simply Indian red, lightened with vermilion and glazed with carmine. Chocola...

Glazing Colors.

Manufacturer and builder 6, 1891 Glazing is a term which has probably been borrowed from the potter's art of coating the ware with a t...

Pukujen historiaa.

Kanerva 3-4, 14.2.1905 Kanervalle kokoonsommitteli Jalmari Kekkonen. Eri aikakausilla vallitseva henki voidaan nähdä jo niistä puvuista,...

Paint from Slate Dust.

Manufacturer and builder 11, 1894 Slate pigment, which is simply slate stone ground and bolted, has become within the past few years quite...

Imparting a Fine Orange-Yellow Tone to Oak Wood.

Manufacturer and builder 2, 1876 According to Niedling, a beautiful orange-yellow tone, much admired in a chest at the Vienna Exhibition, ...

23.9.20

Red Hair.

The Living age 373, 12.7.1851 From Bentley's Miscellany. In the general category of "red" the greater part of people one m...

Värikäs pienviljelijän koti.

Forssan Lehti 111, 23.9.1929 Onko maaseudun kodeissa tarpeeksi aurinkoa ja valoa iloisten värien muodossa? Onko edes vaaleita aurinkoisi...

Effect of Bright Red on Animals.

Scientific American 16, 18.4.1868 We have never yet been able to arrive at a solution of the curious effects of the sight of scarlet or br...

Glass - Its Material and Manufacture.

Scientific American 25, 20.6.1868 A great number of earths, and other mineral bodies, after being fused, do not resume their original char...