SCIENCE / Chemistry / Industrial & Technical from Thomas J. Joyce And Company

Wilmington, DE: Hercules Powder Company, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, 169 pages, pyroxylin coated fabric containing Hercules nitrocellulose ( a cottonlike polymer derived from cellulose treated with sulfuric and nitric acids, and used in the manufacture of explosives - so what would happen if I put a match to the covers???). Prreface by T. W.… Read more about this item

Easton, PA: Jounral of Chemical Education, 1948. Fifth Edition, Enlarged. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, xiv, 578pp., blue cloth, inked name on endpaper. "The story of the disclosure, one by one, of the chemical elements has never been told as a connected narrative. The reports of these discoveries and the life stories of the discoverers are recorded for the… Read more about this item

New York: The Press Scrap Book, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Portrait frontispiece. 8vo, cloth covers soiled, 143 pages How the world came to have aquadag and oildag; also, carborundum, artificial graphite and Goodother valuable products of the electric furnace. Attributed to Acheson, who, after working for Thomas Edison at Menlo Park, took his own genius and… Read more about this item