A practical handbook of dyeing and calico-printing. With eleven page-plates, forty-seven specimens of dyed and printed fabrics, and thirty-eight woodcuts (1874)
Crookes, William, 1832-1919 · London, Longmans, Green · leaf 134
great labour. The method of lixiviation invented by Mr. James Shanks,of St. Helens, is the most economical, as well as the most philosophical.The apparatus is based upon the principle that a short column of a liquid ofsuperior density can be made to balance a higher column of a liquid of aninferior… … At the bottom of the tank is a perforated false sheet-iron bottom, A. From thebottom of each tank to the top is carried a pipe, n, to which, at right angles,is fitted a smaller pipe, b, communicating with the next tank. Water can besupplied to each tank from the pipes, c ,• and by means of the…
Dyes and dyeing · Calico-printing
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