I use a book titled: DICK'S
Encyclopedia of
PRACTICAL
Receipts and PROCESSES
containing
OVER 6400 RECEIPTS
embracing
through information, in plain
language, applicable to almost
every possible industrial and
Domestic requirement
or
HOW THEY DID IT IN THE
1870's
BY WILLIAM B. DICK
(this edition prepared by Leicester and Harriet Handsfield)
FUNK & WAGNALLS NEW YORK
I got it as a gift in 1975+- from Barns & Noble mail order catalogue. A great book to have. An historical reprint.
RICHARD'S RECOMMENDATION, AND MUCH MORE! Rich, I swear to goodness I was thinking of you today, and I was going to Pm you, asking why you weren't posting more. If you open the site I posted you'll have free access to this book; scroll down and click on the blue highlights and you will get the whole text on that given subject.
On the header of the opening page click on
Free Books or
Reference, and you can gain access to any of the books that they have listed. I am at this very moment perusing "Birds Illustrated by Color Photograph," and enjoying it immensely. I've never seen this site before, and thanks to you I now know about it, so this is as good a time as any to say:
RC, I'm glad you're back!