Essays upon the making of salt-petre and gun-powder
Title
Essays upon the making of salt-petre and gun-powder [electronic resource] / [compiled by Thomas Tredwell] ; published by order of the Committee of Safety of the colony of New York.
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.
Note
Reproduction of original from Huntington Library.
Sabin no. 22988.
Indexed in (note)
RLIN
Reproduction (note)
Electronic reproduction.
Author
New York (Colony). Committee of Safety.
Title
Essays upon the making of salt-petre and gun-powder [electronic resource] / [compiled by Thomas Tredwell] ; published by order of the Committee of Safety of the colony of New York.
Imprint
New-York : Printed by Samuel London, 1776.
Indexed in:
RLIN, CTRG03-B992
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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."