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Title: Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Bolles, Albert Sidney, 1846-1939
Subjects: Industries Industries
Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : The Henry Bill pub. Company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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s themselves. Many of them are very easily prepared. Space forbids the enumeration of all the products of the American labo-ratories ; but a few substances may be referred to as showing what jewels modern science finds in unattractive quarters, and how the refuse Glycerine. . of our cities is made to contribute to the welfare of the people.One of the very large products of Cincinnati and Philadelphia is glycerine. OF THE UNITED STATES. 495 This article is obtained from the refuse of candle-factories. Another isammonia, extracted from the gas-liquor of the gas-works. Still another isbromide of potash, which is gathered from the refuse of salt-works. It hasalready been related how cream of tartar is made from the lees of wine. Thisinvaluable substance is also largely produced from beef-bones, which a fewyears ago were thrown away as useless. Chloride of lime, though in immense request in the cotton and linenfactories and other textile establishments of the country, is made in the United
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tufts soda-water fountain. States to a smaller extent than the magnitude of the consumption of thearticle would seem to require. It is easily prepared. Chlorine gas is firstproduced by means of the re-action of hydrochloric acid on binoxide ofmanganese, — a mineral abundantly supplied in all parts of the chloride ofworld, and always eagerly sought after. In some factories the lime-gas is obtained by the re-action of sulphuric acid on common salt and bi-noxide of manganese. By whatever process it is made, it is stored away in 496 INDUSTRIAL HISTORY slaked lime by the simple means of bringing the two substances togetherin a closed chamber. The lime is spread about seven inches deep on thefloor, and the gas forced in. It is slowly absorbed by the lime, the processconsuming about four days. One of the most prominent chemical manufactures in this country is soda-water, so called, and its kindred beverages, — pop-beer and artificial mineral-Manufac- water. The first-named is nothing mor

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