This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Diverse scientific notes and discoveries across industries
A river of brief items covers Australian ore deposits in Victoria a glove industry demand from rat skins in London carbon dioxide liquefaction and snow cures. It cites a Jena earth density prize French oil from residium turpentine byproducts and bees cockpit tools. It reports snow gauging stations in Colorado and France coal and iron outputs, a German field gun design, a bees gathering funnel, and Japanese medical licensing. It notes tuberculin trials in monkeys, shoe drying cyclinders, coconuts in Florida, oyster egg counts, Choqquequirau exploration, Turkish locust control measures, and a Foley kidney remedy ad. It ends with buttermaking flavor problems tied to fat acidity and oxidation, highlighting the Dairy Division Circular 146 findings and sweet cream versus ripened cream impact on fishy butter flavor.