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Bleaching - Early works to 1800

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    Memorial relative to the invention of a new method of bleaching , showing the absurdity of any pretensions to an exclusive privilege for using it in the paper manufacture.

    Kerr, Robert, 1755-1813. | Date: M,DCC,XCII. [1792]
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    The art of bleaching piece-goods, cottons, and threads, of every description, Rendered more easy and general by Means of the Oxygenated Muriatic Acid; with the Method of rendering painted or printed Goods perfectly white or colourless. To which are added, the most certain Methods of bleaching Silk and Wool; and the Discoveries made by the Author in the Art of bleaching Paper. illustrated with nine large plates, in Quarto, Representing all the Utensils and Different Manipulations of the Bleaching Process. An elementary work, composed for the use of manufacturers, bleachers, Dyers, Callico Printers, and Paper-Makers. By Pajot des Charmes, Formerly Inspector of Manufactures, Member of the Lyceum of Arts, of the Society of Inventions and Discoveries of the Philomathic Society, in France. Translated from the French, with an appendix

    Pajot des Charmes, C. | Date: 1799

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