A Treatise on the Progressive Improvement, and Present State of the Manufacture of Porcelain and Glass (Classic Reprint)
ISBN: 978-13-333-0713-4
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Liczba stron: 244
Oprawa: Miękka
Wydanie: 2018 r.
Język: angielski
Dostępność: aktualnie niedostępny
Excerpt from A Treatise on the Progressive Improvement, and Present State of the Manufacture of Porcelain and Glass<br><br>Difl'erent Branches of the Art - Ingredients used - Properties of Alu mina - Its Infusibility. - Contraction when exposed to Heat. - \wedg wood's Pyrometer. - Composition of Gama - Great Abundance of Clay. - Properties of Silica - Its great Abundance - Sea Sand - In capable of artificial Solution inwater. - Dissolved naturally. - Springs at Carlsbad - Boiling Fountain in Iceland - Fusion of Silas - Kinds of Clay used in Potteriea - Their various Merits. - China Clay of Cornwall - Mode of its Preparation - Its Analysis. - Cornish Fel span - l ts Fusibility. - Steatite. - Earth of Bandissero. - Its Analysis. -cornish Sopcstone. - Spuma Maris - Its Employment in Porcelain.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.