Henley's Formulas for Home & Workshop

Henley's Formulas for Home & Workshop by Hiscox, Gardner D.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780517293072.

Containing 10,000 selected household, workshop, and scientific formulas, trade secrets, food and chemical recipes, processes, and money saving ideas Here is a fascinating book, written for people eager to do things for themselves, without having to buy ready-made products at expensive, marked-up prices, and for those who enjoy the satisfaction of producing things with their own hands, eyes, and initiative - and often more enviromentally friendly than the current commerical products with their preservatives, colorants and other additives. Published originally in 1907, then revised and enlarged in1927, this is a facsimile edition of the most comprehensive "how-to-do-it" book available at that time for every conceivable need in the home, workshop, laboratory, factory, or office. Here are recipes for ginger ale, cosmetics, perfumes, and adhesives; directions for making alloys, wine, and cement; formulas for shoe polish and varnish, mustard and alcohol, enameling, etching, electroplating, and dyes. Find out how to tell a real diamond from a phony diamond. There are magic tricks, trade secrets, and tests for harmful food additives, and methods for making a refrigerator which uses no ice (or electricity)! lf you like to tinker, make things, and save money, you wont be able to put this book down; it will take the mystery out of how to make countless items you never before considered making for yourself. - This was a practical book, not a textbook. Henleys is a tool-kit, a history lesson, and a proof of human ingenuity.This book is a cornucopia of knowledge.