Request for Purchase of Assorted Laboratory Supplies
Document 1800Directs purchase of laboratory stores & implements for use by the "reserved Corps on the Ohio." These are to be used for the making of portfires, rockets, quick-match, sponges, and barrels.
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Type
Document Signed
Description
Directs purchase of laboratory stores & implements for use by the "reserved Corps on the Ohio." These are to be used for the making of portfires, rockets, quick-match, sponges, and barrels.
Date
11/18/1800
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Document number
1800111828101
Page start
1
Notable persons
Isreal Whelen
Samuel Hodgdon
James Wilkinson
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Ohio River
Notable items
purchase
public stores
laboratorial stores
tools
implements
return
reams of paper for rockets and portfires
cotton wick for quick match
double rectified spirits of wine
white wine vinegar
allum dressed sheepskins for spunges
spunge tacks
copper nails
budge barrels with copper hoops
copper powder measures
copper scales and weights
copper funnels
copper drudging boxes
brass quadrants with plumets
gunters scales
callibre compasses
copper adzes and driver
copper mealing pan
copper pans
very fine brass wire sieves
common brass wire sieves
gauze sieves with leather bottoms
brass pestle and mortar
eight ounce rocket mould with drifts and formers
mold
portfire mould with drifts and formers
flour of sulphur
sulfur
antimony
rosin
borax
pewter solder
spelter solder
tin
brass and iron wire
sheets of copper
rasps
marline tarred
drum heads
dark and horn lanthorns
lanterns
turner's tools
crocus martis
flour of emory
ague fortis
olive oil
linseed oil
white lead
lamp black
brushes
chest of carpenter's tools
shoemaker's tools
nests of crucibles
flat and half round files