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Notes & Queries. (1985) Imitating Black Walnut. (vastaus)

The Manufacturer and Builder 12, 1877 Ordinary wood, like pine, may be given the color, but not the correct appearance of walnut. In order t...

12.6.14

Bees Distinguishing Colors.

The Manufacturer and Builder 12, 1877 In a lecture delivered by Sir John Lubbock, the well-known English naturalist, we read of some inter...

11.6.14

Ink which Costs Nothing.

The Manufacturer and Builder (9 tai 10), 1877 We read in the Cumberland Alleghanian that the water from the mines above Cumberland is impreg...

10.6.14

Nil Darpan.

The Living Age 904, 28.9.1861 From the Saturday Review. * Nil Darpan; or, the Indigo Planting Mirror. A Drama. Translated from the Bengali. ...

9.6.14

Nature of Colors.

The Galaxy 3, 1871 What is color? This is a question that  may seem very simple, but is not so easy to answer. The question raises another q...

8.6.14

The Selection of Wall-Paper

Manufacturer and builder 3, 1869 One of the most important features in the decoration of the interior of dwelling-houses is undoubtedly the ...

7.6.14

New Chrome Reds.

Manufacturer and builder 10, 1869 Chrome Mercury. - Chromates of potash give, both with the mercurial protoxide and deutoxide salts, a beau...

6.6.14

Household Artists.

Manufacturer and builder 9, 1869 The strange packing-box structures that deform our streets - put up from necessity or cupidity, and dictat...

5.6.14

On the Employment of Aloes as a Dye-Stuff.

Manufacturer and builder 9, 1869 Aloes, the dried bitter juice of the leaves of a plant of the same name, was formerly used only in medicine...

4.6.14

The Manufacture of Lamp-Black and Zinc-White.

Manufacturer and builder 8 tai 9, 1869 If any hydro-carbon, or substance consisting chiefly of carbon and hydrogen, is burned with a great e...

3.6.14

Chrome Green.

Manufacturer and builder 7, 1869 Oxides of chrome are prepared either in the they or wet way; obtained thus, they vary from greenish gray to...

2.6.14

Natural and Artificial Ultramarine.

Manufacturer and builder 7, 1869 There happen to be a few rare cases in which art has succeeded in equaling and even excelling the productio...

Pätkiä. Valo.

Kylväjä 43, 24.10.1907 1. Vaik'ei valoa, mitä elintoiminnan ylläpitämisen välittömään hyötyyn tulee, voidakkaan verrata ilmaan, veteen, ...

31.5.14

Lead Poisoning and Death by the Use of a Hair Preparation

Manufacturer and builder 8, 1873 The Annales de la Sociètè de mèdicine de Gand (Belgium) relates the case of Mr. R. W. -, aged fifty-five, ...

30.5.14

Maailmojen synnystä.

Suomen kuvalehti 7, 1894 Kirjoittanut K. Alb. Heikel. (Jatkoa edelliseen numeroon.) Mutta ei tämä yleinen aineen ominaisuus ole ainoa yh...

29.5.14

Luminous paint.

Manufacturer and builder 12, 1882 The introduction at this time of luminous paint is not the result of any recent discoveries or improvement...

28.5.14

Notes & Queries. (1896) Black Brick and Black Mortar. (vastaus)

The Manufacturer and Builder 8, 1877 Brick becomes black through the process of baking when the brick clay has been mixed with either the pr...

27.5.14

Notes & Queries. (1892) Magic Pictures. (vastaus)

The Manufacturer and Builder 8, 1877 These pictures are nothing but a very ingenious application of the properties of the salts of nickel an...

26.5.14

Notes & Queries. (1891) Writing Secrets on Postal-Cards. (vastaus)

The Manufacturer and Builder 8, 1877 Nothing is easier than to send secret messages on postal cards, by using what is called "sympathet...

Notes & Queries. (1888) Staining vs. Painting. (vastaus)

The Manufacturer and Builder 8, 1877  Staining, if well done, is incomparably finer and richer than paint, which always gives a coarse look,...

25.5.14

Notes & Queries. (1885) Colored Flames. (vastaus)

The Manufacturer and Builder 8, 1877 Alcohol is the best. Mix it with a strong solution of strontium nitrate, and it will burn with a red fl...

24.5.14

Punamultatehdasta laatii Pitkärannan kuparitehtaan hallitus...

Wiipurin Sanomat 162, 17.7.1888 Punamultatehdasta laatii Pitkärannan kuparitehtaan hallitus paraikaa Onkamon kylään, Kiihtelyswaaran ja Tohm...

23.5.14

Värikuuloa.

Uusi Kuvalehti 13, 15.7.1898 On tunnettu tosiasia, että moni ihminen määrättyjen sävelten yhteydessä kokee värihavaintoa, ja että sen ohes...

22.5.14

Hesselius: Berättelse Om Tvänne slags Torf...

Berättelse Om Tvänne slags Torf, hvaraf den ena, då han brännes, gifver en gul aska, thenlig til oljo-färg för målare: den andra gifver efte...