Ulbster Hall lecture. On some of the most curious inventions and discoveries of recent times

by Andrew Coventry

$50 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Edinburgh: for private circulation, 1856. First edition, 12mo, pp. 52; removed from binding; half-title loosening, else very good. A survey of a wide-ranging and eclectic mix of scientific advancements, including: mixing an iron and tin alloy, ultramarine, making rubies and other gems artificially, the electric telegraph, improvements to distillation, heating air during founding, blowing cold air into grain mills, photography without light, siliceous rocks

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