 | Daniel Jay Browne - 1832 - 410 páginas
...linseed oil. On close examination, the varying shades are found to be owing entirely SYLVA AMERICANA. to the inflection of the rays of light ; which is more sensibly perceived in viewing it in different directions by candle light. In cabinet making, furniture is made of it,... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1838 - 772 páginas
...which is more sensibly perceived in viewing it in different directions by candlelight. Before muliogany became generally fashionable in the United States,...it, which, in richness ami lustre, exceed the finest mahogam. At Boston, some cabinet-makers saw it into tliin piates for inlaj ing mahogany ; but the most... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1838 - 754 páginas
...double-ironed plane, it is rubbed with a little sulphuric acid, and afterwards anointed with linseed oil. On examining it attentively, the varying shades...the rays of light ; which is more sensibly perceived in viewing it in different directions by candlelight. Before mahogany became generally fashionable... | |
 | Daniel Jay Browne - 1846 - 542 páginas
...with a double-ironed plane, it is rubbed with a little sulphuric acid, and afterwards with linseed oil. On examining it attentively, the varying shades...the rays of light ; which is more sensibly perceived in viewing it in different directions by candle-light. Before mahogany became generally fashionable... | |
 | New Brunswick. Government emigration office - 1847 - 136 páginas
...double-ironed plane, it is rubbed with a little sulphuric acid, and afterwards anointed with linseed oil. On examining it attentively, the varying shades are found to be owing entirely to the inflexion of the rays of light, which is more sensibly perceived in viewing it, in different directions,... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1854 - 752 páginas
...afterwards anointed with linseed oil. On examining it attentively, the varying shades are found to he owing entirely to the inflection of the rays of light ; which is more sensibly perceived in viewing it in different directions by candlelight. Before mahogany became generally fashionable... | |
 | Peter Lund Simmonds - 1863 - 590 páginas
...the wood with a double-ironed plane, it is rubbed with a little sulphuric acid, and then with linseed oil. On examining it attentively, the varying shades...owing entirely to the inflection of the rays of light, and this is more sensibly perceived in viewing it in different directions by candle hght. Before mahogany... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1863 - 654 páginas
...the wood with a double-ironed plane, it is rubbed with a little sulphuric acid, and then with linseed oil. On examining it attentively, the varying shades...owing entirely to the inflection of the rays of light, and this is more sensibly perceived in viewing it in different directions by candle-light. Before mahogany... | |
 | Ontario. Bureau of Forestry - 1882 - 1002 páginas
...with a louble-ironed plane, it is rubbed with a little sulphuric acid, and afterwards with linseed oil. On examining it attentively, the varying shades...candle-light. Before mahogany became generally fashionable in tho United States, the best furniture in use was made of the red-flowered maple, and bedsteads are... | |
 | 1847 - 552 páginas
...doubleironed plane, it is rubbed with a little sulphuric acid, and afterwards anointed with linseed oil. On examining it attentively, the varying shades...different directions, by candle-light. Before mahogany came into such general use, the wood of the redflowering maple was much used for furniture ; bedsteads... | |
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... and to work, produces, in the hands of a skilful mechanic, the most beautiful effects of light and shade. These effects are rendered more striking, if, after smoothing the surface of the wood with a double-ironed plane, it is rubbed with a little... 