02692cam a22003253u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000140012624500360014026400510017630000470022733600260027433700260030033800360032650000310036250802040039352015560059753400600215365300270221385600640224085600430230499900190234777263UtSlPG20260610134805.0mcr n260607r20251880utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a08028916  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aTP1 aAnonymous14aThe history of a pot of varnish 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2025-11-18  aCharlene 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.)  aThe 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.

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.)  pOriginally published:cNewark: Murphy and Company, 1880  aVarnish and varnishing4 uhttps://archive.org/details/historyofpotofva00unse/mode/2up40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77263  c117983d117983