Stories
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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?
Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
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An experimental system of metallurgy. With general remarks, and explanations. By the late John Henry Hampe, M. D. Fellow of the Imperial Academy, N. C. and Of the Royal Society of London.
Hampe, Johann Heinrich, 1697-1775.Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Books
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Herrn George Ernst Stahls ... Anweisung zur Metallurgie, oder der metallischen Schmeltz- u. Probier-Kunst : nebst dessen Einleitung zur Grund-Mixtion derer unterirrdischen mineralischen und metallischen Cörper. Alles mit gründlichen Rationibus, Demonstrationibus und Experimentis nach denen Beccherischen Principiis ausgeführet.
Stahl, Georg Ernst, 1660-1734.Date: 1744- Books
De metallicis libri tres. Andrea Caesalpino avctore ... / [Andrea Cesalpino].
Cesalpino, Andrea, 1524 or 1525-1603.Date: 1596- Books
Richardi Watson ... Institutionum chemicarum im prælectionibus academicis explicatarum, pars metallurgica / [Richard Watson].
Watson, Richard, 1737-1816.Date: 1768- Books
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Œuvres métallurgiques / de M. Jean Christian Orschall. Contenant I. L'art de la fonderie; II. Un traité de la liquation; III. Un traité de la macération des mines; IV. Le traité des trois merveilles; (traduit de l'allemand [by Baron d'Holbach]).
Orschall, Johann Christian, active 1682-1687.Date: 1760