Essays upon the making of salt-petre and gun-powder.
0000; Gale Group; Linguagem: English
Autores
Tredwell, Thomas, Van Cortlandt, Pierre, Hancock, John, Whiting, William, Govett, William.,
ResumoIn Committee of Safety during the recess of the Provincial Congress, January 17th, 1776 -- In Congress, Philadelphia, July 18, 1775 -- Method of making salt-petre at Hanover, 1766 -- The process for extracting and refining salt-petre according to the method practised at the provincial works in Philadelphia -- Experiments made by Capt. Pryor and Mr. Thomas Pain for the purpose of fixing some easy, cheap, and expeditious method of making salt-petre in private families in order to shew the practicability of a plan proposed by Mr. Pain of forming a salt-petre association for voluntarily supplying the public magazines with gun-powder -- An excellent method of making gun-powder. Book.
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