Stories
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The chymist’s trade card
An 18th-century trade card reveals far more than its owner may have intended.
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From chef’s whites to medical scrubs
Meet the machinists who have rapidly switched from making clothing for hospitality staff to uniforms for hospital workers.
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Tracing the toxic story of tear gas
Investigating tear gas – from factory to Black Lives Matter protest – Imani Jacqueline Brown uncovers a toxic legacy where pollution, violence and racism are intimately entwined.
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A dispatch from the frontiers of man and machine
Harry Parker’s life changed overnight when he stepped on a bomb and lost his legs. He argues that being an amputee doesn’t make him an outlier; we are all hybrid.
Catalogue
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Furnaces, flatting mills, swagers, blowpipes, burners, soldering appliances, tools, tooth brushes, dentifrices, books, and sundries / Claudius Ash, Sons & Co., Ltd.
Claudius Ash & Sons.Date: 1908- Books
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A compleat course of chymistry. Containing near hundred operations ; Several of which Have not been Publish'd before. Also The Structure of several Furnaces, with with near Three Hundred Characters, which are dispers'd in Chymical Authors; And such Instruments and Vessels as are necessary in a Compleat Elaboratory All cut in Copper. By George Wilson, Chymist.
Wilson, George, 1631 or 1632-Date: 1703- Books
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A new course of chemistry: in which the theory and practice of that art are delivered in a familiar and intelligible manner: The Furnaces, Vessels, and Instruments Are Described; And The Preparations of the Several Medicines are laid down according to the Most Easy and Certain Processes. Together with A Succinct Account of the Several Drugs Used in the Preparation of Chemical Medicines; as to their Nature, Production and Country. By James Millar.
Millar, James, 1762-1827.Date: MDCCLIV. [1754]- Books
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The art of making sugar: Under the heads of I. The Natural History of the Sugar-Cane. II. The Culture of the Sugar-Cane. III. The Mills for pressing the Canes; and Furnaces, Coppers, &c. for boiling the Juice. IV. The Method of making Muscovado V. The Method of preparing clayed Sugars. VI. The Method of making Sugar from Melasses and Scums. Vii. The refining of Sugars. With an appendix containing The Art of fermenting and distilling Melasses, Scums, &c. for rum.
Date: M.DCC.LII. [1752]
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Various types of furnaces