Salts
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Hydrostatics, Specific Gravity, c1780-c1803
Item
Identifier: Coll-204/11
Scope and Contents
Unnumbered manuscript notes and letters, with tables and sketches on water moving as a mass, the construction of hydraulic machinery, salts and specific gravity, and the stability of ships, and a printed volume of James Brown's 1785 booklet on "Directions for Proving Any Kind of Spirits, or Strong Waters, by Glass Bubbles". Interesting illustrations include a cutaway drawing of a piston, ca. page 11; cutaway of an oil lamp, ca. page 50; conjectural drawing of a pedestrian wheel for fording...
Dates:
c1780-c1803
Plot 42 - Superphos[phate] and Amm[oni]a Salts, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1378
Scope and Contents
Photograph of a small plot of grass land treated with superphosphate and ammonia salts with a measuring stick showing the height of the plant growth.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Printed document relating to salt, 9 April 1714
File
Identifier: Coll-1383/2/4
Scope and Contents
Document notifying appointment of commissioners and officers of salt duty, and relating to powers thereof.
Dates:
9 April 1714
Salting Time on an Ontario Farm, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2365
Scope and Contents
Photograph of a flock of sheep grazing on a field and eating salt that has been put out for them on an Ontario Farm in Canada in the early/mid 20th century.
Dates:
1870s-1930s