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Saltpeter

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  • Buildings and plant for producing saltpetre. Watercolour by A. Kroll, 1806.
  • Buildings and plant for producing saltpetre. Watercolour by A. Kroll, 1806.
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    Buildings and plant for producing saltpetre. Watercolour by A. Kroll, 1806.

    Kroll, Adam. | Date: 1806 | Reference: 26265i
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    Lavoisier et L'encyclopédie méthodique : le manuscrit des régisseurs des poudres et salpêtres pour le Dictionnaire de l'artillerie (1787) / Patrice Bret.

    Bret, Patrice. | Date: 1997
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    Legends no histories, or, A specimen of some animadversions upon The history of the Royal Society : wherein, besides the several errors against common literature, sundry mistakes about the making of salt-petre and gun-powder are detected, and rectified: whereunto are added two discourses, one of Pietro Sardi, and another of Nicolas Tartaglia relating to that subject. Translated out of Italian. With a brief account of those passages of the authors life, which the virtuosi intended most to censure, and expatiate upon ... Together with the Plus ultra of Mr. Joseph Glanvill reduced to a non-plus, &c / By Henry Stubbe.

    Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676. | Date: 1670
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    Specification of Daniel Rutter Long : preserving animal food by means of injection.

    Long, Daniel Rutter. | Date: 1855
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    The search for nitre, and the true nature of guano : being an account of a voyage to the south-west coast of Africa : also a description of the minerals found there, and of the guano islands in that part of the world / by T.E. Eden, Jr.

    Eden, T. E. (Thomas Edward) | Date: 1846
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