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Table of temperatures for Sikes's Hydrometer : an abstract of th Act of Parliament 56 Geo. III. Cap. 140, establishing Sikes's Hydrometer and tables of the concentrated strength of spirits, for estimating the duties on spirituous liquors throughout the United Kingdom with description and direction for their use / by Drine & Fage.
Date: 1862- Books
Sike's hydrometer & table.
Sikes, Inventor of a hydrometer.Date: [1820?]- Books
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The distiller's vade-mecum: being a complete set of tables, exhibiting at one view the exact weight of spirituous liquors; From the lowest Quality to Alcohol, for any Number of Gallons, from 50 to 252, or One Ton. Together with Some useful Rules for calculating the different Strengths of Spirits, In the most simple and correct Manner, by the Pen. Adapted to Clarke's Hydrometer. To which is Added, a Table, shewing the Weight of Vinecar. Also, A very useful Table, shewing the Value of One Gallon of Spirits of any proposed Strength; corresponding with the comparative Value of One Gallon of any other Strength. By Joseph Atlay.
Atlay, Joseph.Date: 1792- Books
Sike's hydrometer & table. An abstract of the Act of Parliament 56 Geo. III. cap. 140 establishing Sike's hydrometer[;] and table of the concentrated strength of spirits, for estimating the duties on spirituous liquors ... with description & direction for their use, as made by Dring & Fage ... London / [Sikes].
Sikes, Inventor of a hydrometer.Date: 1824- Books
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The publican and spirit dealers' daily companion, or, plain and interesting advice to wine vault and public house keepers, On subjects of the greatest Importance to their own Welfare, and to the Health, Comfort, & Satisfaction Of Their Customers & Society At Large: By following the Directions and Receipts in this Work, they will save at least 25 per Cent. Monthly in their own Trade. Contents. Brewing and management of Beer, Ale, and Amber Making of all kinds of Compounds and British Wines Spirit, Wine, and Malt Licences Importation Duty on all Foreign and British Goods Excise on British Compounds Laws relating to Inn-Keepers Publicans, &c. Billetting of Soldiers Arts and Deceptions of Brokers &c. &c. &c. The Weight of all kinds of Spirits, with Sundry Gauge Tables for Butts and Casks of all dimensions, likewise comprising the various uses of Clark, Dring & Co and Quins Hydrometer & Thermometer.
Boyle, P. (Patrick), -1808?.Date: [1800]- Books
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Tables of the concentrated strength of spirits by Sykes's hydrometer : as used by the officers of the Excise branch of the Inland Revenue.
Date: [between 1870 and 1879?]- Books
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A report of the computation of tables, to be used with the hydrometer recently adopted for use in the United States custom-houses / made under the superintendence of A.D. Bache, by R.S. McCulloh.
Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867.Date: 1851- Books
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A sure guide to distillers, and all dealers in spiritous liquors, for discovering the true proportion of water and alchohol [sic] in any ... compound; and how to make it exactly proof, by a new-constructed hydrometer / [Benjamin Martin].
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782Date: [1759]- Books
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Notice is hereby given to all dealers in brandy, rum, malt, or Melasses-Spirits, Arrack, &c. that the hydrometer, or brandy-prover, being the production of many years study and Experiments, is now brought to its utmost perfection.
Clarke, Richard, manufacturer.Date: [1746]- Books
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Every man his own brewer, a small treatise, explaining the art and mystery of brewing porter, ale, twopenny and table-beer; Recommending and proving the ease and possibility of every man's brewing his own beer, in any quantity from one peck to a hundred quarters of malt. Calculated by exposing the deception in brewing; to reduce the expence of a family, and lessen the destructive practice of public-house tipling. By Samuel Child brewer.
Child, Samuel.Date: [1792?]- Books
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The publican's guide; or, key to the distill-house. Containing I. An Account of Rum, Brandy, and other Spirituous Liquors, in their Original State; the most advantageous Method of purchasing each Article; various Frauds on the Quays pointed out, and how to avoid them; with Instructions for the Buyer, by which every Retailer will be enabled to reduce his own Liquors, and sell on Terms equal to- and with far more Credit than-the generality of advertising Merchants. II. The discovery of Adulteration in what is called Genuine Rum; Rum to sink Oil, &c. also the iniquitous Practice of Adulteration in the Distillery. III. A True Description of false proof, commonly called the doctor; how made Use of; it's Effect on Spirits, with Genuine receipts for making the Composition. IV. The Use of Clarke's Celebrated Hydrometer, an Instrument to ascertain the true Strength of Spirits. V. Tables shewing the Prices of Liquors, from 5l. per Tun to 100l. and from One Gallon to a Tun. Also, the exact Weight of Rectified Spirits of Wine, Brandy, Rum, and Proof-Spirit, from One Gallon to Two Hundred. Interspersed with anecdotes and remarks, Necessary to be known by all Dealers in Spirits, and highly interesting to the Public in General. A new edition, with additions. By William Augustus Smyth.
Smyth, William Augustus.Date: MDCCLXXXI. [1781]- Books
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A description of a new instrument for measuring the specific gravity of bodies. By William Nicholson, in a letter to Mr. Magellan.
Nicholson, William, 1753-1815.Date: MDCCLXXXV. [1785]- Books
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Hydrometrical observations and experiments in the brewery.
Baverstock, James, 1741-1815.Date: MDCCLXXXV. [1785]- Books
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The retail compounder; or, publicans friend. An entire new work, shewing by a Set of plain Receipts (never yet made Public) an approved method of making British compounds, As used in the first Rectifying Houses in the Metropolis, such as Peppermint, Carraway, Coriander, Cloves, Cinnamon, Anniseed, Gin Bitters, Brandy Bitters, &c. &c. from a single gallon to any quantity. Which will save full 2s. per Gallon on each Article, and be of as good a Quality as any sold by the Rectifying Distillers. Likewise, An easy Method to make good Gins in small Quantities. To which is added, a description of the hydrometer and thermometer, To ascertain the strength of Spirits, With the Method of using the same, Made Plain to the Meanest Capacity. Together with a few Rules for colouring and refining Liquors, and some cursory Remarks respecting the Spirit Trade. By John Hardy.
Hardy, John, active 18th century.Date: [1795]- Books
1926 price list of British Dial glass-blown and other chemical and laboratory apparatus comprising chemical and general apparatus, gas analysis apparatus, pyrex laboratory ware, thermometers, hydrometers, etc. / Plowden & Thompson, Ltd.
Plowden & Thompson, Ltd.Date: 1926- Books
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Remarks on a pamphlet entitled Hydrometrical observations and experiments in the brewery; in a letter to Mr. More, secretary to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. To which is subjoined an advertisement, pointing out the easiest methods of applying the saccharometer, in order to produce uniform strength in malt-liquors; addressed to those brewers who may be averse to calculations. By J. Richardson.
Richardson, John, active 1777-1798.Date: 1785- Ephemera
Francis Watkins, optician, at Charing Cross, London : makes spectacles of all sorts, ground in the correctest manner, and set in gold, silver and tortoiseshell ... money weights and scales finished with the greatest exactness = Francois Watkins, opticien, à Charing Cross, à Londres.
Watkins, Francis, 1723-1782.Date: [1777?]- Books
Essays and observations, physiological and medical, on the submersion of animals, and on the resin of the Acoroides resinifera, or yellow resin from Botany Bay. To which are added, select histories of diseases, with remarks / By Charles Kite.
Kite, Charles, 1768-1811.Date: 1795- Books
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L'automate de longitude. Nouveau systéme d'hydrométrie ; par les périodes d'un mouvement nautique, qui marque à un cadran, les lieuës qu'un navire fait dans sa route. Présenté à nos seigneurs les Commissaires de la Grande Bretagne pour l'examen des découvertes sur la longitude. Par Allain Pitot.
Pitot, Allain.Date: MDCCXVI. [1716]- Books
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A system of experimental philosophy, prov'd by mechanicks. Wherein the principles and laws of physicks, mechanicks, hydrostaticks, and opticks, are demonstrated and explained at large, by a great Number of curious Experiments: With a full Description of the Air-Pump, and the several Experiments thereon: As also of the different Species of Barometers, Thermometers, and Hydrometers; as shewn at the publick Lectures in a Course of Mechanical and Experimental Philosyphy. As performed by J. T. Desaguliers. M. A. F. R. S, Illustrated with several copper plates. To which is added, Sir Isaac Newton's colours: the description of the condensing engine, with its Apparatus: and Rowley's horary; a Machine representing the Motion of the Moon about the Earth; Venus and Mercury about the Sun, according to the Copernican system.
Desaguliers, J. T. (John Theophilus), 1683-1744.Date: 1719- Books
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A system of experimental philosophy, prov'd by mechanicks. Wherein the principles and laws of physicks, mechanicks, hydrostaticks, and opticks, are demonstrated and explained at large, by a great Number of curious Experiments: With a full Description of the Air-Pump, and the several Experiments thereon: As also of the different Species of Barometers, Thermometers, and Hydrometers; as shewn at the publick Lectures in a Course of Mechanical and Experimental Philosyphy. As performed by J. T. Desaguliers. M. A. F. R. S. Illustrated with several copper plates. To which is added, Sir Isaac Newton's colours: the description of the condensing engine, with its Apparatus: and Rowley's horary; a Machine representing the Motion of the Moon about the Earth; Venus and Mercury about the Sun, according to the Copernican System.
Desaguliers, J. T. (John Theophilus), 1683-1744.Date: [1719]- Archives and manuscripts
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Date: mid 20th centuryReference: WA/HMM/CM/Inv/B.6Part of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library- Archives and manuscripts
"Sur les connoissances des anciens"
Date: 1770s-1780sReference: MS.9158