The complete book of trades, or, The parent's guide and youth's instructor : forming a popular encyclopaedia of trades, manufactures, and commerce, as at present pursued in England, with a more particular regard to its state in and near the metropolis : including a copious table of every trade, profession, occupation, and calling, however divided and subdivided : together with the apprentice fee usually given with each, and an estimate of the sums required for commencing business (1842)
Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791-1860 · London : Printed for Thomas Tegg · leaf 287
ant that may be. The earliest and most simple contrivance of this sort, and consequently the rudest we find depicted in Vol. 2, of Mr. Badcock's Philosophical Recreations, 1816. It may be looked upon as the earliest attempt at obtaining gas from oil, and was at first adapted to none but domestic…
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