The Chemical Forces

[grladams at teleport.com]

Wow! Where to start? The writing is like that of M&D. In the back of the
book on p.16 in the Publisher announcements pagination, it makes me imagine
that the characters in the book such as the scientifically included members
of the Chums, or Rideout, or the Candlebrow conferencees might have had a
copy of it:

Hitherto, no work suitable for general use, treating all these subjects
within the limites of a single volume, could be found; consequently the
attention they have received has not been at all proportionate to their
importance.... a book containing so much valuable information within so
small a compass cannot fail to meet with a ready sale among all intelligent
person, while Professional men, Physicians, Medical Students,
Photographers, Telegraphers, Engineers and Artisans generally will find it
specifically valuable if not nearly indispensable as a book of reference.
...



To the memory of Dr. Joseph Black. During a Long Life, Professor of
Chemistry in the Universities of Glasgow and of Edinburgh...And the
discoverer of those laws of latent heat which led to the wonderful
improvements in the steam engine, this volume...is respectfully inscribed
by an ardent admirer of his genius.. 

http://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/dept/black.htm


Original Message:
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From: rich richard.romeo at gmail.com
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 14:43:42 -0500
To: robinlandseadel at comcast.net, pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: The Chemical Forces


a stellar example of bilocation, eh?

rich


On 11/7/07, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> From Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine, 1870
>
>
> The Chemical Forces-Heat, Light and Electricity.
> With their application to the expansion, liquefaction and vaporization of
> solids ; the steam-engine, photography, spectrum analysis, the galvanic
battery,
> electro-plating, the electrical illumination of light-houses, the
fire-alarm of
> cities, the atlantic telegraph. An introduction to "Chemical Physics" 
Designed
> for the use of academies, colleges, and medical schools. Illustrated with
> numerous engravings, and containing copious lists of experiments, with
> directions for preparing them. By THOMAS RUGGLES PYNCHON, Hartford :
> A.S. Hale & Co. For sale by Van Nostrand.
>
> The recent progress in physical science has created a demand among
instructors
> for more extended treatises upon the above subjects than they have
heretofore
> been able to obtain. The work of Prof. Pynchon seems well adapted to meet
such a
> demand. It is well arranged and copiously illustrated.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/ypn88o
>
> Go to page 333 to find the reference.
>

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