Abridgments of the specifications relating to preservation of food / printed by order of the Commissioners of Patents.

Date:
1857
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Abridgments of the specifications relating to preservation of food / printed by order of the Commissioners of Patents. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cakes; these are again dried, and “ reduced to a fine powder/’ which, after being further dried, is preserved for use in air-tight vessels.” [Printed, 7d.] A.D. 1855, December 11.—N° 2800. BOUET, Rene Simon, and DOUEIN, Henri Emile Isidore. —This invention received provisional protection, but notice to proceed with the application for Letters Patent was not given within the time prescribed by the Act. The object was preserving “ meat and other animal substances ” by applying to the same a layer of collodion, either alone or mixed with other suitable material or materials, so that a film is “ over the outside of the substances “ to be preserved.” [Printed, 3cZ.] LONDON: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty.
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