Buildings and plant for producing saltpetre. Watercolour by A. Kroll, 1806.

  • Kroll, Adam.
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1806
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26265i
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Buildings and plant for producing saltpetre. Watercolour by A. Kroll, 1806. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Elevations, ground plan and cross-sections

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1806

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1 drawing : watercolour, with pen and ink ; border 52 x 64.8 cm

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1806 Kroll's new invented plan, being the most valuable method for growing salpetre, which after its maturity may be immediately used for making gun powder of a far stronger and superior kind than any which has been yet produced. ... soleley invented by Adam Kroll. Dedication: "To his excellent Majesty George 3th king of the united kingdom of Great Britain this plan is most humble inscribed by his majesty's most devoted most obdient servant inventor Adam Kroll." Bears red wax seal

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Wellcome Collection 26265i

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By Adam Kroll, author of Algemeen tol-tarif, voor alle havens en grens-tolhuisen des Russischen Ryks, Amsterdam 1784; A commercial dictionary in the English and Russian languages; with a full explanation of the Russian trade, &c. &c., London 1800; Milton and Horatio on the watery element at sea; a drama set to music, St. Petersburg 1806; a song Ode auf den Frieden mit England, Schweden und der Türkey, St. Petersburg 1813 (for which he composed the words and the music); and many other musical works

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