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Well not Everything......but this is a real treasure.
What amazing resources can be found on the web,
when they can be found.
What an age---when a person really could know almost everything anyone else knew about the world.
RE our most specific interests here:
Traditional adhesives and cements of all types at:
http://www.cairns.net.au/~sharefin/Cyclopedia/cements.html
Online book from either:
http://www.cairns.net.au/~sharefin/Cyclopedia/indx_a.html or
http://www.cairns.net.au/~sharefin/Cyclopedia/contents.html
From the book's Preface:
"In truth, the present volume has been compiled under the feeling, that if all other books of Science in the world were destroyed, this single volume would be found to embody the results of the useful experience, observations, and discoveries of mankind during the past ages of the world."
Website preface/intro:
" One day while wandering through the Saturday markets in Glebe, Sydney, I spotted an interesting book on one of the stalls. Bound in decaying leather, with loose pages spilling from within, and "The Household Cyclopedia" in faded gold on the frayed spine. The text inside was small, but quite legible. The pages where only slightly splotched with stains. It was only $10. I paid.
What a bargain! It was soon evident that this was no ordinary book. It was the sort of book a pioneer of the old west would have packed carefully into his covered wagon before heading off for a boondock town. It was a book for people who need to be able, if the circumstances demand, to amputate a limb, grow their own fibre for material, take care of their horses, give birth to children, and build houses, concoct medicines, all with the minimum of help from others. "
What amazing resources can be found on the web,
when they can be found.
What an age---when a person really could know almost everything anyone else knew about the world.
RE our most specific interests here:
Traditional adhesives and cements of all types at:
http://www.cairns.net.au/~sharefin/Cyclopedia/cements.html
Online book from either:
http://www.cairns.net.au/~sharefin/Cyclopedia/indx_a.html or
http://www.cairns.net.au/~sharefin/Cyclopedia/contents.html
From the book's Preface:
"In truth, the present volume has been compiled under the feeling, that if all other books of Science in the world were destroyed, this single volume would be found to embody the results of the useful experience, observations, and discoveries of mankind during the past ages of the world."
Website preface/intro:
" One day while wandering through the Saturday markets in Glebe, Sydney, I spotted an interesting book on one of the stalls. Bound in decaying leather, with loose pages spilling from within, and "The Household Cyclopedia" in faded gold on the frayed spine. The text inside was small, but quite legible. The pages where only slightly splotched with stains. It was only $10. I paid.
What a bargain! It was soon evident that this was no ordinary book. It was the sort of book a pioneer of the old west would have packed carefully into his covered wagon before heading off for a boondock town. It was a book for people who need to be able, if the circumstances demand, to amputate a limb, grow their own fibre for material, take care of their horses, give birth to children, and build houses, concoct medicines, all with the minimum of help from others. "
