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

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...