The history of a pot of varnish (Registro nro. 117983)
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
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| Classification number | TP |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Anonymous |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The history of a pot of varnish |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
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| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| Content type term | text |
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| General note | Release date is 2025-11-18 |
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| Creation/production credits note | Charlene Taylor, chenzw and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | The history of a pot of varnish by Anonymous is an industrial and technical account written in the late 19th century. It explains how varnish is made and used, emphasizing the sourcing of resin gums, the preparation of linseed oil and turpentine, and the manufacturing craft, with special attention to the practices and standards of Murphy & Co. The likely topic is the journey of varnish from raw materials to finished product within a growing American industry.<br/><br/>The book opens by celebrating American curiosity about how things are made, then explains varnish’s three essentials—fossil resin (especially gum copal), linseed oil, and turpentine. It tours global resin sources (Zanzibar, Accra, New Zealand’s kauri fields), notes fossil gums with trapped insects, and contrasts fresh versus fossil resins. It then moves inside the factory: sorting and cleaning gum, boiling and refining oils, melting and combining ingredients, filtering, and long “ripening” in tanks, all overseen by testing to prevent the familiar “deviltries” painters face (crawling, specking, blistering). The narrative profiles Murphy & Co.’s Newark and Cleveland works, their meticulous cleanliness, in-house cooperage and tin shop, laboratory, and even a publication office, and explains their prepared “A.B.C. Surfacers” to ensure sound undercoats. It closes by framing the firm’s role in helping American varnishes rival and surpass imported grades, reflecting broader industrial confidence and expansion. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | Newark: Murphy and Company, 1880 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Varnish and varnishing |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/historyofpotofva00unse/mode/2up">https://archive.org/details/historyofpotofva00unse/mode/2up</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77263">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77263</a> |
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