BY JOHN TIMBS,
Editor of · Laconics :' "Arcana of Science and Art,' &c.

"Its beginning is pleasure, its progress knowledge, and its objects truth

and utility."--Sir Humphry Davy.

Popular Chemistry-Mechanics--Arts and

Manufactures.

BOSTON:

LILLY & WAIT, AND CARTER & HENDEE.
NEW YORK, E. BLISS; PHILADELPPIA, CAREY AND HART;

NEW ORLEANS, M, CARROL; PORTLAND, $. COLMAN.

POPULAR CHEMISTRY.

Introductory

3 | Hydrogen

95

Attraction or Affinity

7 The Blowpipe

96

Crystallization

12 Water

97

Heat

20 Steam

- 112

Electricity

35 Muriatic Acid

113

Light and Flame

49 Nitrogen

. 114

Combustion

60 Ammonia

118

Spontaneous Combustion -

65 Sulphur-

· 120

Charcoal

66 Sulphuric Acid

. 122

Gunpowder

68 Phosphorus

124

Volcanio Fire

70 Coal Gas

- 127

The Diamond

74 Oil Gas

133

Properties of Carbon

82 Rosin Gas

- 134

Oxygen

91 Hydrocyanic Acid

136

Chlorine -

92 Properties of Metals

- 137

Bromine and Iodine

94 Potassium

138

* Erratum, at page 46, for “ torpedo, or electric eel,” read “ torpedo,

or electric ray."

MECHANICS.

Introductory

Simple Machines

Wheel and Axle

Wheel Carriages

The Wedge

The Screw

The Pulley

Friction -

3 Strength of Materials

23

Coa)s and Gunpowder

26 Balances

28 Water

31 Animal Strength

32 Railways

33 Steam-Engine

35 Recent Inventions

87

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66

ARTS AND MANUFACTURE S.

Introductory

3 Cobalt

Weights and Measures

11 Bismuth-Silver

Money

13 Gold

Working Metals

21 Platinum

Iron

23

Glass

Cutlery

31 Pottery

Zinc

33 Linen, Cotton, &c.

Lead

36 Woollens

Antimony

39 Silk

Copper

40

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44

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49

49

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