Essays upon the making of salt-petre and gun-powder / [compiled by Thomas Tredwell] ; published by order of the Committee of Safety of the colony of New York.
| Author/creator | New York (State). |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New-York : Printed by Samuel London, 1776. |
| Description | 39 p. : 21 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Gale, Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926 |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Tredwell, Thomas, 1743-1831. |
| Other author/creator | Van Cortlandt, Pierre, 1721-1814. |
| Other author/creator | Hancock, John, 1737-1793. |
| Other author/creator | Whiting, William, 1730-1792. |
| Other author/creator | Govett, William. |
| Series | Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926 Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926. |
| Partial contents | In Committee of Safety during the recess of the Provincial Congress, January 17th, 1776 -- In Congress, Philadelphia, July 18, 1775 -- Method of making salt-petre at Hanover, 1766 -- The process for extracting and refining salt-petre according to the method practised at the provincial works in Philadelphia -- Experiments made by Capt. Pryor and Mr. Thomas Pain for the purpose of fixing some easy, cheap, and expeditious method of making salt-petre in private families in order to shew the practicability of a plan proposed by Mr. Pain of forming a salt-petre association for voluntarily supplying the public magazines with gun-powder -- An excellent method of making gun-powder. |
| Local note | Library's copy is defective and imperfect: p. 37-39 wanting; pages stained, marked up and annotated in ms. A ms. note on the t.p. states: "3000 copies printed." |
| General note | Reproduction of original from Huntington Library. |
| General note | Sabin no. 22988. |
| References | RLIN, CTRG03-B992 |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
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