Glues and Gelatine: A Practical Treatise on the Methods of Testing and Use (Classic Reprint), Fernbach R. Livingston

This work purports to be a practical treatise on the testing and examination of glue and gelatine. It aims to acquaint the consumer with the methods employed by representative American manufacturers in grading and distinguishing between glues and the considera tions governing their valuation. It offers to the chemist, who is too often unfamiliar with these products, al though experienced in other lines, test methods chosen with a view to determining the value of a glue for a specific purpose, rather than merely defining its abstract chemical characteristics.

While the subject of glue is by no means unrepre sented in technical literature, it has been dealt with chiefly from the standpoint of manufacture; while the intelligent testing of glue that which must deter mine its commercial value, and which, furthermore, is the only means by which the manufacturer himself is enabled to assign a grade and a price to his product, has been given scant consideration; the subject being dismissed with brief reference to methods at once obsolete and inaccurate.

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