Box 1
Container
Call Number: MS 306
Contains 48 Results:
Leaf beginning "p. 89 Dry wood contains a large amount of Oxygen; about one half of its weight ..."
File — Box: 1, Folder: 26
Leaf beginning "These results do not correspond; nor should they be looked upon as fixed except under conditions stated"
File — Box: 1, Folder: 27
Leaf beginning "Watson Smith (Am. Ch. Vol 3.97) using iron retorts 6 feet long and 3 feet wide, and distilling for 11 hours - using old oak timber ..."
File — Box: 1, Folder: 28
Leaf beginning "p.90 Acetone is an ethereal liquid lighter than water boiling at 133 degrees F. and burning with a luminous flame"
File — Box: 1, Folder: 33
Leaf beginning "The Geological positions[?] from which Petroleum is obtained having been pointed out an interesting question arises what is its source - from what previously Existing substance has it originated ..."
File — Box: 1, Folder: 35
Strip of paper with "1 Chem[ica?]l News[?]" written upon it
File — Box: 1, Folder: 36
Leaf beginning "The same writer [James Dwight Dana] states that it occurs in Triassic shales and limestone at Southbury Conn in the Mesozoic period"
File — Box: 1, Folder: 37
Leaf beginning "It proceeds from rocks of various ages from the lower Silurian ... tertiary and from limestones and sandstones as well as shales. ... Dana"
File — Box: 1, Folder: 38
Leaf beginning "That it is at all formed from Coal is very doubtful ..."
File — Box: 1, Folder: 39
Leaf beginning "The amount of oil poured out by some wells is truly immense"
File — Box: 1, Folder: 40
Leaf beginning "The following table shows the formula, specific gravity, and boiling point, of a part of the series 1 C2 H4 ... 25 Paraffine ..."
File — Box: 1, Folder: 42
Leaf beginning "Crude petroleum is a mixture of several liquids which have not yet been accurately determined ..."
File — Box: 1, Folder: 43
Leaf beginning "Petroleum has been Known for 2000 years to the Western World. Herodotus described a spring of it on the island ..."
File — Box: 1, Folder: 44
Leaf beginning "A considerable deposit of petroleum is found at [blank space] in Caucasus Mountains; There are at least 20,000 wells in the East shore ..."
File — Box: 1, Folder: 45
Leaf beginning "Use of Open Steam," written on the verso of a torn form from the Patent Office, 1880
File — Box: 1, Folder: 46
Leaf beginning "decomposing as it melts and burning like resin ..."
File — Box: 1, Folder: 47
Photocopy of the lining of the book spine, taken when the broken spine of the book was repaired
File — Box: 1, Folder: 48