Project Gutenberg 2006-02-10 Public domain in the USA. 477 Smith, Watson 1845 1920 Shonk, Albert The Chemistry of Hat Manufacturing Lectures Delivered Before the Hat Manufacturers' Association Produced by Jason Isbell, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Chemistry of Hat Manufacturing" by Watson Smith is a scientific publication written in the early 20th century. This work consists of a series of lectures delivered to the Hat Manufacturers' Association, focusing on the application of chemistry within the hat manufacturing industry. The likely topic of the book revolves around the chemical properties of various materials used in hat making, detailing the interactions of textile fibers like wool, fur, and hair, as well as the essential processes in manufacturing. The opening of the text provides context for these lectures, highlighting a period of increased competition faced by British hat manufacturers and the resulting push for scientific investigation and improvement in techniques. Watson Smith discusses the characteristics of both vegetable and animal textile fibers, detailing how these relate to hat-making, and he introduces methods for differentiating and testing these fibers chemically. The text promises to explore not just the fibers themselves but also the broader chemical processes involved in hat production, suggesting a comprehensive examination of the intersection between chemistry and textile manufacturing. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 58.8 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. en Hats TS Text Technology Chemistry Browsing: Computers & Technology Browsing: Engineering & Construction Browsing: Science - Chemistry/Biochemistry/Physics Category: Science - Chemistry/Biochemistry Category: Engineering & Technology Category: Fashion 386583 2025-06-07T14:06:19.304158 text/html 372042 2006-02-10T05:58:34 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 551731 2006-02-10T05:58:36 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 672287 2025-06-07T14:06:31.282088 application/epub+zip 673218 2025-06-07T14:06:23.937184 application/epub+zip 183017 2025-06-07T14:06:21.989141 application/epub+zip 888779 2025-06-07T14:06:36.362117 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 829400 2025-06-07T14:06:29.732146 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 251822 2022-09-08T12:46:22.091594 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 301183 2025-06-07T14:06:17.995143 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 300917 2006-02-10T05:58:34 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 103812 2006-02-10T05:58:36 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 301166 2006-02-10T05:58:34 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 103753 2006-02-10T05:58:36 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20983 2025-06-07T14:06:36.532048 application/rdf+xml 14784 2025-06-07T14:06:22.602146 image/jpeg 3567 2025-06-07T14:06:22.295115 image/jpeg 661018 2025-06-07T14:06:19.370180 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog