Waste products and undeveloped substances : a synopsis of progress made in their economic utilisation during the last quarter of a century at home and abroad / by P.L. Simmonds.

Date:
1873
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Credit: Waste products and undeveloped substances : a synopsis of progress made in their economic utilisation during the last quarter of a century at home and abroad / by P.L. Simmonds. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OLD CLOTIIKS. Old clothes, sales at the Tuileries, 27. salesmen in London, 30. iron, shipments of, 451. newspajDers and ledgers re- worked for paper, 274. quills sold, 294. Oldham, headquarters of cotton waste manufacture, 2G4. Olive husks, 189. Orange leaves, 240. Orange-peel cutters in London, 30. , uses of, 223. Oriental Fibre Matting Company, 253. Ott's process for utilising tin-plate cuttings, 438. Outshots, a kind of rags, 273. Oxide of iron, purple ore or rouge, 408,409. Oxy-sulphuret of calcium, uses of, 401. Oyster-shells for manure, 154. Ozokerit, 371, 387, 389. Palm-leaf hats, 233. Palmyra palm leaves, 234, Panama hats, 233. Pancake of leather, 84. Paper bags, 295. clippings, use of, 2&4. collars and neckties, 273,295. , ecouomisiug, 293. under carpets, 294. from beet-root pulp, 213. from fish, 149. from maize, 290, 291. from oat husks, 288. from sea-weed, 331. from waste leather, 86. manufacture, waste sub- stances suitable for, 273. , use of, by tailors, 294. , waste, collected, 32. Papier-mache from cocoanut-fibre dust, 317. Paraffin, 371. from petroleum, 386. , origin of name, 386. , varied uses of, 386, 391. PILCHABDS. Paraffin oil, 326. ^ from peat, 310. from Lewis peat, 313. Parchment paper, 272. Paris, consumption of horseflesh in, 58. municipality farm the night- soil, 17. Parrot coal, 385. Pasted stock, 84. Patent fuel, 354. exported, 364. Paul, Dr., on slag, 462. , on waste, 403. Pearl ashes, 256, 257. Pearls, artificial, 166. Peat asphaltum, 311. bogs in Ireland, 308. charcoal compared with wooti charcoal, 299. coke, ordinary, as fuel, 298. , economic use of, 296. in the useful arts, 309. , mode of cutting and drying in Holland, 308. , ordinary, as fuel, 298. , pr(.ducts of distillation, 310. , purified and pressed, as fuel, 298. -— tar, 311. Peonine, 372. Peroxide of manganese, 405. Peruvian guano, 139, 154. Petroleum, residuum from, 386. Phenic acid, 310. Phosphate of lime in bone, 96, from iron ores, 457. Phosphorus from bones, 97, 101. Photographic waste, uses of, 427. Phenol, 372. _ blue, 373. ' Piassaba fibre, 177. Picked dog-fish, 143. Picric acid, 373. Pig iron, 455. Pig-skin, 50. Pigs' hair; see Bristles, 68. Pigs in Russia, 40. Pilchards for manure, 160.