Bulkley h g (2 Ergebnisse)

Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Previous owner's bookplate and name inside front cover. The interior is clean and tight. Binding and cover are good. 405 pages.

Advertising circular. 34 x 10 cm. Printed in various sizes and styles of type. Some overall toning, but a very nice example. Bulkley declares that his kiln "dries thoroughly and cheaper than be any other Kiln," and thus eliminates the need to keep a large stock of lumber. He asks the recipient of this circular to post it in their shop, show it to their neighbors, etc. to get the word out. In Vol. IX of the "Prairie Farmer," edited by John Wright and J. Ambrose Wight (Chicago: 1849), the editors mention an invention by H.G. Bulkley of Kalamazoo of a Corn Kiln. They describe the kiln as "cheap, simple, and effective," an apparatus consisting of an oblong, rectangular wooden box with a sheet iron bottom, placed over a fire, and fitted with pipes, cylinders, and cog-wheels. "It can also, by a slight change in the disposition of the cylinders, be used for kiln drying lumber." Bulkley must have concluded to patent this "slight change" as a new invention in 1852.…