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Essays upon the making of salt-petre and gun-powder
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- [compiled by Thomas Tredwell] ; published by order of the Committee of Safety of the colony of New York
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- Sabin Americana, 1500-1926
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- New-York : Printed by Samuel London, 1776
- Physical Details
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- 39 p. : 21 cm
- Sabin no. 22988.
- In Committee of Safety during the recess of the Provincial Congress, January 17th, 1776 -- In Congress, Philadelphia, July 18, 1775 -- Method of making salt-petre at Hanover, 1766 -- The process for extracting and refining salt-petre according to the method practised at the provincial works in Philadelphia -- Experiments made by Capt. Pryor and Mr. Thomas Pain for the purpose of fixing some easy, cheap, and expeditious method of making salt-petre in private families in order to shew the practicability of a plan proposed by Mr. Pain of forming a salt-petre association for voluntarily supplying the public magazines with gun-powder -- An excellent method of making gun-powder