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[FDK]

Heres an interesting eBook I thought folksa might be entertained by from the Project Gutenberg library

Among the Mushrooms by Caroline A. Burgin and Ellen M. Dallas

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/18452

Enjoy

[FDK]

Now while this title may be more of a novelty due to it's age (circa 1892) I'm sure it may have some interesting information to some so therefore likely worth at least a glance-thru. Especially as it's free.
(Really love the Project Gutenberg site)

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24944

Have fun

[Hippie3]

thx
let's keep these all in one thread

[FDK]

Cool, I just put in two different sections as "Among the Mushrooms" is more concerned with finding wild ones while "Mushrooms: how to grow them by William Falconer" is more focused on cultivation.

[FDK]

And heres yet another one many on this board might find interesting or useful,

"Cactus Culture for Amateurs
Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country,
With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation"

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13357

Now Hippie, as this obviiously is unrelated to shrooms, should I just make a new thread in the Cacti section, or mabey should you bump this over to the "General Section" as I'll be browsing thru the entire library over the next few days (Need a break from digging my clay mine :) ) and it's pretty certain there will be more I'd like to add to my lil' list of interesting titles and topics?

Also, was wondering if you think it would be best for me to add a reply or simply edit the last post?

[FDK]

As this sort of info can really serve most of the Discussions here, I felt it best to plant it in the general section. (Mabey a good stick-e-book?)

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22784

Ok, this one is from 1898 and if you choose to dabble in the art of glass, be very sure to work in a well ventilated area while doing so cuz' working hot glass (to the point it becomes malliable at least) produces a gas which will phuk thine lungs up royaly over time.

As with any Old School How-To type "Tek", you will find it highly advisable to do further research on the history between then & current methods to check for proper saftey precautions which might have been unknown of in the Olden-tymes.

So check it out, make your own seperator funnels, Petri dishes, Pipetts, Test Tbes, Water Bongs & Pocket Pipes, but for the sake of your deity of choice, be careful, dont work in a cluttered area, if the glass you are working shatters while hot, small pieces can fly into hard to get to corners and set that pair of dirty old socks you threw into the corner on fire,,, Nuff said on that I hope. (I'd suggest a 20'x20' area if not outdoors on concrete altogether.)

Materials are relativley cheap and easily obtained not to mention just how profitable a hobby this can become with some practice.

Heres the Chapter and topics list to whet your appetite.

ON LABORATORY ARTS






BY

RICHARD THRELFALL, M.A.

PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY;
MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS;
ASSOCIATE-MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF CIVIL ENGINEERS;
MEMBER OF THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY






London
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1898
All rights reserved

PREFACE *
CHAPTER I *
HINTS ON THE MANIPULATION OF GLASS AND ON GLASS-BLOWING FOR LABORATORY PURPOSES *
§ 4. Soft Soda Glass, *
§ 6. Flint Glass. — *
§ 9. Hard or Bohemian, Glass. — *
§ 10. On the Choice of Sizes of Glass Tube. — *
§ 11. Testing Glass. — *
§ 13. Cleaning Glass Tubes. — *
§ 14. The Blow-pipe. — *
§ 18. The Table. — *
§ 19. Special Operations. — *
§ 20. Closing and blowing out the End of a Tube. — *
§ 21. To make a Weld. — *
§ 22. To weld two Tubes of different Sizes. — *
§ 24. To weld Tubes of very small Bore. — *
§ 30. To cut very thick Tubes. *
§ 31. To blow a Bulb at the End of a Tube. — *
§ 32. To blow a bulb in the middle of a tube, *
§ 33. To make a side Weld. — *
§ 34. Inserted Joints. — *
§ 35. Bending Tubes. — *
§ 36. Spiral Tubes. — *
§ 37. On Auxiliary Operations on Glass:- *
§ 38. Boring small Holes. — *
§ 39. For boring large holes through thick glass sheets, *
§ 41. Operations depending on Grinding: Ground-in Joints. — *
§ 42. Use of the Lathe in Glass-working. — *
§ 46. Making Ground Glass. — *
§ 47. Glass-cutting. — *
§ 48. Cementing. — *
§ 49. Fusing Electrodes into Glass. — *
§ 51. The Art of making Air-tight Joints. — *

APPENDIX TO CHAPTER I *
ON THE PREPARATION OF VACUUM TUBES FOR THE PRODUCTION OF PROFESSOR ROENTGEN'S RADIATION *

CHAPTER II *
GLASS-GRINDING AND OPTICIANS' WORK *
§ 61. Details of the Process of Fine Grinding. — *
§ 62. Polishing. — *
§ 63. Centering. — *
§ 65. Preparing Small Mirrors for Galvanometers. — *
§ 66. Preparation of Large Mirrors or Lenses for Telescopes. — *
§ 69. The Preparation of Flat Surfaces of Rock Salt. — *
§ 70. Casting Specula for Mirrors. —
§ 71. Grinding and polishing Specula. — *
§ 72. Preparation of Flat Surfaces. — *
§ 73. Polishing Flat Surfaces on Glass or on Speculum Metal. — *

CHAPTER III *
MISCELLANEOUS PROCESSES *
§ 74. Coating Glass with Aluminium and Soldering Aluminium. — *
§ 75. The Use of the Diamond-cutting Wheel. — *
§ 76. Arming a Wheel. — *
§ 77. Cutting a Section. — *
§ 78. Grinding Rock Sections, or Thin Slips of any Hard Material.— *
§ 79. Cutting Sections of Soft Substances. — *
§ 80. On the Production of Quartz Threads.' — *
§ 84. Drawing Quartz Threads. — *
§ 86. Drawing Threads by the Catapult. — *
§ 87. Drawing Threads by the Flame alone. — *
§ 88. Properties of Threads. — *
§ 90. On the Attachment of Quartz Fibres. — *
§ 91. Other Modes of soldering Quartz. — *
§ 92. Soldering. — *
§ 94. Preparing a Soldering Bit. — *
§ 95. Soft Soldering. — *
§ 97. Soldering Zinc. — *
§ 98. Soldering other Metals — *
§ 99. Brazing. *
§ 100. Silver Soldering. — *
§ 101. On the Construction of Electrical Apparatus - Insulators. — *
§ 102. Sulphur. — *
§ 103. Fused Quartz. — *
§ 104. Glass. — *
§ 105. Ebonite or Hard Rubber. — *
§ 106. Mica. — *
§ 107. Use of Mica in Condensers. — *
§ 108. Micanite. — *
§ 109. Celluloid. — *
§ 110. Paper. *
§ 111. Paraffined Paper. — *
§ 112. Paraffin — *
§ 113. Vaseline, Vaseline Oil, and Kerosene Oil. — *
§ 114. Imperfect Conductors. — *
§ 116. Conductors. — *
§ 117. Platinoid. — *
§ 119. Platinum Silver. — *
§ 120. Platinum Iridium. — *
§ 121. Manganin. — *
§ 122. Other Alloys. — *
§ 123. Nickelin. — *
§ 124. Patent Nickel. — *
§ 125. Constantin. — *
126. Nickel Manganese Copper. — *

CHAPTER IV *
ELECTROPLATING AND ALLIED ARTS *
§ 127. Electroplating. — *
§ 128. The Dipping Bath. — *
§ 130. Scratch-brushing. — *
§ 131. Burnishing. — *
§ 132. Silver-plating. — *
§ 133. Cold Silvering. — *
§ 134. Gilding. — *
§ 135. Preparing Surfaces for Gilding. — *
§ 136. Gilding Solutions. — *
§ 137. Plating with Copper. — *
§ 138. Coppering Aluminium. — *
§ 140. Alkaline Coppering Solution — *
§ 141. Nickel-plating.— *
142. Miscellaneous Notes on Electroplating. *
§ 143. Blacking Brass Surfaces. — *
§ 144. Sieves. —
§ 145. Pottery making in the Laboratory. — *

APPENDIX *
PLATINISING GLASS *

[bear]

Thanks! ganked!

[FDK]

Yep, here it is, Make your own tasty libations, go a step further with a few tek's, find some Wormwood and brew up some Absynthe or whatever you wish. Follow Steve Earl up Copperhead road etc.


The Practical Distiller
An Introduction To Making Whiskey, Gin, Brandy, Spirits,
&c. &c. of Better Quality, and in Larger Quantities, than
Produced by the Present Mode of Distilling, from the Produce
of the United States
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/21252

Down with the Tax Man and Revenuers!

[FDK]

The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees
Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886,
Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 301-398

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24788

This one may keep me busy for a while.

Covers a wide array of compounds for various uses, Medicinal, Spiritual etc.

[FDK]

Doh, sorry for the extra footwork I made for ya Hippie, will I be able to add to the list when in storage as well (Only up to S in the catalog)? Didnt mean to scatter them, just wanted to pop em' in a relavent section as best I could.

Again, sorry for the inconvenience 2 u.