COMPLETE WORK ON THE PRACTICAL ARTS. 



D. APPLETON & COMPANY 

 Have recently Published^ the fourth ^m:rican Jrom the third London edition, 



A DICTIONARY 



OF 



ARTS, MANUFACTURES, AND MINES, 



Containing a Clear Exposition of their Principles and Practice. Illua 

 trated with 1241 Wood Engravings. 



Bv ANDREW URE, M.D., F.R.S., &c. 



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Ill every point of view, a work like the present can but be regarded as a benefit done 

 to theoretical and practical science, to coniinerce and industry, and an important addi 

 tioii to a species of literature the exclusive production of the present century, and the 

 present state of peace and civilization. — Athencbum 



Dr. Ur«'s Dictionary, of which the Aniericaii edition is now completed, is a stupen- 

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SUPPLEMENT TO DR. URE'S DICTIONARY. 



LATELY PUBLISHED 



RECENT IMPROVEMENTS IN ARTS, MANUFACTURES, AND MINES 



Being a Supplement to his Dictionary. 

 By ANDREW URE, M.D., F.R.S., &c., &c. 



One volume, 8vo, of 300 pages and near 200 elaborate woodcuts, in paper cover, $1, or 

 in s.ieepto match the Dictionary, $1 50, 



Amongst many articles entirely nev/, and others treated at greater length in this Sup- 

 plement than in the former editions of the Dictionary will be found — Alcohol ; Arrow 

 Roi>T (as a manufacture;) Artesian Wells (with a notice of the successful labours 

 of MM. Arago and Malot, at Crenelle, near Pans;) Bavarian Bekr (" the Mystery 

 of Brewing is more philosophically studied, and incomparably better undeislood in Mu- 

 nich than in London, and throughout Bavaria than in England ;") Biscuits (with a 

 complete description, with figures, of the large automatic bakeries at Deptford and 

 Portsmouth;) Bread; Brick-making; fuller informiition of the recent aiiplmations of 

 Caoutchouc to the Arts, under Bookbinding, Braiding-Machine, and Elastic 

 Bands: Calotvpe: (Calico-Printing; ('andles ; Chocolate (a new article;) 

 Daguerreotype ; Electro-Metallurgv ; Fermentation ; Gas-Light; Guano; 

 Illumination ; Ikon and Smelting (lu^w contributions, with inscriptions and figuret 

 of iinproved Smelting Apparatus.) LEATHER; Mines; Photograph y : Potash; 

 BuQAR of Potatoes ; Steel ; Soda ; Serd-crushing (the manufacture >)f Oil ;) 

 Pepper: the Saccharometek Table (now fnsr, inserted;) Smoke Prevention ; 

 Spinning; Spiiuts (with a new t.ible ;) Tobacco; Ventilation, &c., ic, &c. : 

 With an Appendix entitled Chemistry Simplified, a Guide to Practitioners in testing 

 Alkalis, Af.iils, and Bleaching Substances, in several dejiartnients of the chemical arts. 



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