The Commercial Dictionary of Trade Products, Manufacturing and Technical Terms
With a Definition of the Moneys, Weights, and Measures, of All Countries, Reduced to the British Standard

Instructive in the history of trade and technology, this 1867 enlarged edition of Simmonds' 1858 dictionary contains over 22,000 entries.

Peter Lund Simmonds (Author)

9781108069274, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 21 August 2014

476 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.7 cm, 0.6 kg

An industrious journalist and editor of periodicals, Peter Lund Simmonds (1814–97) wrote across a range of subjects, including natural history and applied science. An active member of the Royal Society of Arts, he first published this dictionary in 1858. Reissued here in its revised and enlarged edition of 1867, it contains more than 22,000 entries. The curious can discover within that a calcar is a furnace in a glassworks, or that the best kind of Cuban tobacco is known as calidad. Readers will also learn that the hautboy can be either eaten or played, being the name for both a wild strawberry and a form of oboe. Testifying to the proliferation of manufactured goods in the nineteenth century, and the contemporary desire to diffuse 'sound and useful knowledge among the masses', this work will appeal to readers interested in the history and lexicon of trade and technology.

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Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]