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The Commercial Dictionary of Trade Products, Manufacturing and Technical Terms - With a Definition of the Moneys, Weights, and Measures, of All Countries, Reduced to the British Standard (Paperback)
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The Commercial Dictionary of Trade Products, Manufacturing and Technical Terms - With a Definition of the Moneys, Weights, and Measures, of All Countries, Reduced to the British Standard (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
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An industrious journalist and editor of periodicals, Peter Lund
Simmonds (1814 97) wrote across a range of subjects, including
natural history and applied science. An active member of the Royal
Society of Arts, he first published this dictionary in 1858.
Reissued here in its revised and enlarged edition of 1867, it
contains more than 22,000 entries. The curious can discover within
that a calcar is a furnace in a glassworks, or that the best kind
of Cuban tobacco is known as calidad. Readers will also learn that
the hautboy can be either eaten or played, being the name for both
a wild strawberry and a form of oboe. Testifying to the
proliferation of manufactured goods in the nineteenth century, and
the contemporary desire to diffuse 'sound and useful knowledge
among the masses', this work will appeal to readers interested in
the history and lexicon of trade and technology."
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