1831 Arcana of Science and Art: Or an Annual Register of Useful Inventions and Improvements

Description

Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Uncommon

The fourth annual volume of this work, uncommon in all years.

Illustrated with a frontispiece, four engraved plates, and further vignettes. Collated, complete.

This anthological work lists and describes useful inventions, improvements, discoveries and new facts in numerous fields such as mechanics, chemistry, natural history and social economics.

It also features a list of the patents granted in the year 1830.

Including discussion of Cooper's rotary fire engine, a new cash register, blood preservation, distillation of nitric acid, marine vegetables as food, and how the snail forms its shell.

With eight pages of advertisements to the start of the work.