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The Principles of Leather Manufacture

by Henry Richardson Procter

2019-05-22 18:24:27

The origin of the present work was an attempt to prepare a second edition of the little Text-Book of Tanning which the Author published in 1885, and which has been long out of print. Though persevered in for years, the work was never brought to compl ... Read more
The origin of the present work was an attempt to prepare a second edition of the little Text-Book of Tanning which the Author published in 1885, and which has been long out of print. Though persevered in for years, the work was never brought to completion, partly owing to the constant pressure of other duties, but still more to the rapid advances which have been made in our knowledge of the subject, and in the scientific thought which has been devoted to it. For his share in the initiation of this work, much credit is due to Wilhelm Eitner, Director of the Imperial Royal Research Institute for Leather Industries in Vienna, but the advance he began has been energetically carried forward not only in Vienna, but in the Tanning Schools and Research Institutes of Freiberg, Leeds, London, Liège, Copenhagen, Berlin and elsewhere, and to a less extent in private laboratories. Less

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File size6613.888 KB
Print pages700
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2018-10-14
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780353121867,
Henry Richardson Procter (born May 6, 1848, in Lowlights at Tynemouth, † August 17, 1927, in Newlyn, Cornwall ) was a British chemist, who dealt with the chemistry of tanning processes in leather pr...

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