Found something kinda interesting today... An online book called Fortune in Formulas, almost 900 pages of handy dandy info on how to make things out of stuff, like trade secrets, processes, and common names of things that m,ight be hard to find by their 'official' name.
"A guide to how and where to procure ingredients, illustrated workshop and laboratory methods, latin names translated into english, a glossary of common names of chemical substances"
Anyhoo, enjoy - link at bottom :)
Fortunes in Formulas, for home, farm, and workshop; the modern authority for amateur and professional; containing up-to-date selected scientific formulas, trade secrets, processes, and money-saving ideas; edited by Gardner D. Hiscox and Prof. T. O'Connor [sic] Sloane.
Main Author: Hiscox, Gardner Dexter, 1822?-1908.
Other Authors: Sloane, T. O'Conor 1851-1940.
Language(s): English
Published: New York, Books, inc. [c1939]
Subjects: Recipes.
Industrial arts.
Note: Earlier editions published under titles "Henley's twentieth century formulas, recipes and processes" and "Henley's twentieth century books of formulas, processes and trade secrets."
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4140803;view=1up;seq=13