Excerpt from Scientific Industries Explained: Showing How Some of the Important Articles of Commerce Are Made
Accustomed as we are to behold the marvellous applications of Science to the useful purposes of everyday life, how few of us take the trouble to inquire how this or that effect is produced which adds so much to our comfort, our enjoyment, and our wealth! We delight in clean linen, but know not how soap is made; we admire the varied hues of our clothing and our finery, but are ignorant of the processes by which such charming tints are obtained; we know that the prosperity of our country depends greatly upon our success in certain manufactures, but, alas, how little we know of the thought, care, and skill which are involved in their production, or of the means by which the various results are obtained!
To give an insight into the Scientific Industries of our country, in a simple and easily understood form, is the object of the present work; and it has been the Author's aim to instruct without tiring his reader with elaborate details. A systematic arrangement of the subjects treated has been purposely avoided, in order that the work may he regarded as a means of intellectual recreation rather than a severe study.
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