The Manufacture of Paint - A Practical Handbook for Paint Manufacturers, Merchants, and Painters #271319

Machinery is an element Of such importance in paint-making that it has been deemed proper to enter pretty fully into mechanical details, and to introduce numerous illustrative diagrams. Care has been taken to make the illustrations accurate and reliable; and in order that each diagram may be easily understood and may be effectual for its immediate purpose, it has not been loaded with details that are unnecessary for that purpose. Chemical principles also enter largely into the manufacture Of paint. In dealing with this part of the subject no attempt has been made to dispense with the ordinary terms and formulae Of chemistry. To have proceeded otherwise, and to have used only popular language, might have suited some readers, but would have been essentially misleading. At the same time, pains have been taken to render the ex position Of the chemical principles that require atten tion as intelligible as possible to the untrained or partially trained reader.