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Easton, PA: Jounral of Chemical Education, 1948. Fifth Edition, Enlarged. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, xiv, 578pp., blue cloth, inked name on endpaper. "The story of the disclosure, one by one, of the chemical elements has never been told as a connected narrative. The reports of these discoveries and the life stories of the discoverers are recorded for the most part in old chemical journals, biographical dictionaries, old letters, and obsolete textbooks that are seldom read by the busy modern chemist." Over 350 illustrations.

Wilmington, DE: Hercules Powder Company, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, 169 pages, pyroxylin coated fabric containing Hercules nitrocellulose ( a cottonlike polymer derived from cellulose treated with sulfuric and nitric acids, and used in the manufacture of explosives - so what would happen if I put a match to the covers???). Prreface by T. W. Bacchus, who founded the Hercules Powder Company in 1912 - and sold it for ten million dollars in 1914 ! A scientific and practical treatment of high explosives. Amply illustrated with photogravures, charts, sketches, Barab wrote several books on mining and explosives, and patented an improvement in nitroglycols.

New York: The Press Scrap Book, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Portrait frontispiece. 8vo, cloth covers soiled, 143 pages How the world came to have aquadag and oildag; also, carborundum, artificial graphite and Goodother valuable products of the electric furnace. Attributed to Acheson, who, after working for Thomas Edison at Menlo Park, took his own genius and eventually was rewarded with 70 patents of his own. The U.S. Patent Office named Acheson's invention of carborundum as one of the 22 patents contributing most to the development of the Age of Industrialism. Portrait frontispiece.