Clapham, Anthony, 'Waste common-place book 1822'

'Waste common-place book 1822.' Containing notes, calculations and accounts of experiments and chemical analyses on alkalis, soap-making, and on other substances and processes connected with industrial chemistry. Produced in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

1822-1836

1 volume 172 pp. + 9 ll. last 4 bl.. folio. 391/2 x 25 cm. Original quarter-calf binding, worn.

Purchased 1925.

The compiler established soda and alkali works on the Tyne, and this volume contains notes of his work in the laboratory.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).