10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GOLD-BEATING»
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gold-beating in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
gold-beating and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Several bookbinders of this country realize in this way as much as $500 to $600
each month. The daily sweepings from gold-beating establishments are saved
and sent to the smelter, as they are rich with gold. Several machines have been ...
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge
Besides its application in gold-beating, this fine membrane is used in the
dressing of slight wounds. Gold-beating is a very ancient art, having been
practised from a remote period among oriental nations. Gilding with leaf-gold is
found on the ...
3
Gold: Science and Applications
Gold Beating True beaten gold leaf remains the material of choice for prestige
gilding in which durability is called for. The first recipes for gold leaf production
via beating appeared in the twelfth century as evidenced by the emergence of a ...
Christopher Corti, Richard Holliday, 2009
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A manual of metallurgy: more particularly of the precious ...
For this purpose the operation of gold beating is employed in order to laminate
the gold, and bring it into a fit state for such operations. This capability of beating
gold must have been very early discovered; for in the description of the ...
George Hogarth Makins, 1865
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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
93.S53. (CI. 78 — 100.) 1. In a gold beating machine, the combination of a
movable beating member, a circular series of mold carriers, and means for
Imparting to said mold carriers three motions relatively to the beating member,
one of which ...
United States. Patent Office, 1918
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The history of a lump of
gold
Gold Beating — Leaf Gold — The Operations of Gold Beating — Casting —
Rolling — Beating . . . . . 58 Gold-beating — Leaf-gold . . . . . 58 The operations of
Gold-beating — Casting the Gold into ingots — Rolling — Annealing — Casting ...
Alexander Watt (F.R.S.S.A.), 1885
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The circle of the mechanical arts
GOLD-BEATING AND GILT-WIRE DRAWING. GUN-MAKING. is wound off upon a
smaller cylinder called a rocket, placed on the spindle of a spinning-wheel ; and
this last cylinder being fixed on its axis behind the plate, the wire is again drawn ...
Thomas Martin (civil engineer.), 1813
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or, Universal dictionary of Knowledge
The size of the French gold leaves is somewhat less than from 3 inches to 3^
square ; that of ours, from 3 inches to $~ The process of gold-beating is
considerably influenced by the weather. In wet weather, the skins grow
somewhat damp, and ...
Encyclopaedia Perthensis, 1806
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A Dictinary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines...
Gold beating. _ This is the art of reducing gold to extremely thin leaves, by
beating with a hammer. The processes employed for this purpose may be
applied to other metals, as silver, platinum, and copper. Under tin, zinc, &c., we
shall mention ...
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Johnson's (revised) universal cyclopaedia: a scientific and ...
Gold-Beating. The thin leaves of gold used in gilding and by dentists in filling
teeth are prepared by beating thin shcetB of the metal placed between the leaves
of what is technically called a " book." The first step in the process is to prepare
the ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GOLD-BEATING»
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The craft of gold-beating that has thrived for centuries in Vietnam
Despite the vagaries of time, the village's craft of gold-beating is still thriving. Around 50 families are now active in the business with hundreds ... «Thanh Nien Daily, Jun 15»
