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152 items
Adulterations of Food; With Short Processes for their Detection
- 1874
Chapters cover food types commonly adulterated through the use of additives, with some additives being non-food items such as plaster of Paris, lead and brick dust. End of book features plate illustrations of common…
- Author Atcherley, Rowland J.
- Publisher W. Ibister & Co.
- Subject Food--Analysis, Food adulteration and inspection, Food additives
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52 items
Price-List Analytical Laboratory and Assay Office of Gideon E. Moore
- 1888
Sections include:
A.—Qualitative analyses. Ores, minerals, etc.
B.—Assays for, and quantitative determinations of, single constituents.
C.—Assays and analyses of fuel, ores, minerals, technical materials and products,…- Author Moore, Gideon E.
- Publisher Rankin, John C., Jr.
- Subject Metals, Moore, Gideon E., Analytical chemistry, Rankin, John C., Jr., Assaying
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476 items
The Effects of Atomic Weapons
- 1950
Illustrated throughout, this book covers topics including the principles and description of an atomic explosion; shock from air, underground and underwater bursts; physical damage; thermal radiation; nuclear radiations…
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30 items
The Horsford Cook Book
- Circa 1877
Pocket-sized cookbook features recipes using Horsford baking powder including recipes for biscuits, rolls, muffins and short cakes.
- Publisher Rumford Chemical Works
- Subject Baking, Baking powder, Cooking, Rumford Chemical Works, Recipes, Baked products, Baked products industry
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48 items
Fallout Protection: What to Know and Do About Nuclear Attack
- 1961
Illustrated throughout including sections on shelters, shelter supplies, first aid and recovery.
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40 items
Iron & Steel Industrial Defense Planning Manual
- 1965
Illustrated throughout with topics including corporate emergency planning, emergency planning at the plant and general provisions (corporate and plant levels). Also includes an industrial defense organization chart.
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100 items
In Time of Emergency; a Citizen's Handbook on Nuclear Attack [and] Natural Disasters
- 1968
Illustrated throughout including chapters on fallout shelters, supplies, fire hazards and emergency care of the sick and injured. The section on major natural disasters covers floods and hurricanes, tornadoes, winter…
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40 items
First Aid in the Prevention and Treatment of Chemical Casualties
- 1941
Illustrated throughout, this booklet includes sections on lung irritants, blister and tear gases, irritant smokes, incendiaries, screening smokes, systemic poisons and decontamination stations.
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28 items
Simple Exercises Illustrating some Applications of Chemistry to Agriculture
- 1908
Text includes illustrations as follows:
Fig. 1. Chemicals needed for the exercises in this bulletin
Fig. 2. Apparatus used in preparing oxygen
Fig. 3. Apparatus used in preparing nitrogen
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Adulterated Drugs and Chemicals
- 1906
Text includes sections entitled "Inferior drugs and insidious methods of deception," "Rose geranium oil and its substitutes," and "Phenacetin: methods of analysis and commercial status."
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48 items
The Story of Rubber, What it Is and What it Does
- Circa 1916
A book about rubber sourcing, cultivation, processing, and the industry during the late colonial period. Published by a rubber goods company presumably for marketing. The Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Company was founded…
- Publisher The Boston woven hose & rubber company
- Subject Rubber industry and trade
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30 items
Formaldehyde Gas as a Germicidal and Disinfecting Agent as Employed with the Sanitary Formaldehyde Regenerator
- 1897
A brochure about the value of using formaldehyde gas for disinfection measures created by a company that sold formaldehyde regenerators, the instrument used to produce and distribute formaldehyde gas. Includes tables of…
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12 items
Atomic Energy, How?
- 1950s
A booklet that describes and explains atomic energy in non-specialist terms with similes to common materials like a drop of water or a fireplace. Con Edison is the energy provider for the New York City metro area, they…
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76 items
AEC Handbook on Oak Ridge Operations
- 1961
This handbook includes a short history of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, operations at the plant, the community of Oak Ridge, and short summaries of the Area Offices. Oak Ridge was built starting in late 1942.…
- Publisher U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
- Subject U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Nuclear energy, Nuclear power plants
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72 items
Laboratory Experiments with Radioisotopes for High School Science Demonstrations
- 1958
A booklet containing twenty radioactivity experiments designed by New York City teachers to be performed in biology, chemistry, and physics high school classes. The experiments deal with topics such as radioactive…
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27 items
A Manual of Vegetable Materia Medica
- 1886
This manual identifies plants used for medicinal purposes. The focus is on plants that can be acquired through commerce in Britain and are illustrated as they would have been imported and bought, for example the opium…
- Author Wills, George S. V.
- Publisher Simpkin, Marshall and Co.
- Subject Botany, Medical, Medicinal plants, Materia medica, Vegetable
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16 items
Atomic energy here to stay
- 1949
This is a magazine supplement meant to inform the educational leaders of the United States about the need for schools to address atomic energy with their students. It frames atomic energy as the future of the economy …
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56 items
Controlled nuclear fusion
- 1968
- Author Glasstone, Samuel, 1897-1986
- Publisher U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
- Subject Controlled fusion
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48 items
Fallout from nuclear tests
- 1963
Booklet explaining nuclear fallout including basic concepts, pathways to man, biological effects, and preventive and remedial measures.
- Author Comar, C. L.
- Publisher U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
- Subject Radioactive fallout, Nuclear weapons--Testing
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40 items
Handling radioactive wastes in the atomic energy program
- 1949
"This report describes radioactive waste materials, their sources in the atomic energy program, and the methods used on processing and storing or disposing of them at atomic energy installations and at laboratories and…
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48 items
Atomic fuel
- 1967
- Author Hogerton, John F.
- Publisher U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
- Subject Nuclear fuels
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74 items
Atoms to electricity
- 1983
Booklet about the United States nuclear energy program, which includes description of the process, types of nuclear reactors, nuclear fuel, transporting radioactive materials, and economies of nuclear power. Includes…
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Dr. T. Taylor's reply to "Science", relating to the crystals of butter, animal fats, and oleomargarine
- 1886
This reprint is Dr. Thomas Taylor's reply to the magazine "Science" relating to his heavily disputed method of analyzing fats for adulteration. Dr. Thomas (1820-1910) was appointed in 1871 Microscopist to the United…
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192 items
Plant-atlas to "My water-cure," : containing sixty nine pictorial representations of all the medicinal-plants mentioned as well as some others in general use among the people
- 1893
The Plant-Atlas is a book about the herbal plants that can be used for health remedies. The publication of this book followed that of Sabastian Kneipp's My Water Cure, and is meant as a supplement to help the reader…
- Author Kneipp, Sebastian, 1821-1897
- Publisher Koesel, J.
- Subject Botany, Medical, Medicinal plants, Botany, Hydrotherapy
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Tallqvist's Hämoglobin scale
- 1900 – 1920
Developed circa 1900 and often called the Tallquist Method, it is used to compare a patient's blood color to a chart of red colors to diagnose possible anemia. The method is still used when more sophisticated equipment…
- Author Tallqvist, Theodor Waldemar, 1871-1927
- Publisher Sharp & Smith
- Subject Hemoglobin, Diagnosis, Medical care, Blood