Tissandier, Gaston, 1843-1899, Frith, Henry, 1840-, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · London, New York [etc.] Ward, Lock & Co · leaf 277
e ; and in some of the pits in which charcoal isproduced,an arrangement is made to collect the tar also.Coal-tar and wood-tar are different in some respects, andare both distilled to procure the naphthas which bear theirrespective names. From wood-tar creosote is also ex-tracted, and it is this… … Tar manufactory. cordage when much exposed to wet, v;hich it resists betterthan anything else at the same price ; but the tar chieflyused for these purposes is that produced by burning fir ordeal wood and condensing the tar in a pit below the stackof wood ; it is called Stockholm tar, as it comes…
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