Isabella and Richard Ingalese

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Acalana wrote:

Hey what is that a picture of on your profile?

A uterus?

no!, a turkey brain :-)

Acalana wrote:

Basilisk wrote:

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Thanks for the suggestion

Their books look good I will check them out

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Their original goal was to create the Oil of Gold. But, in Richard's pamphlet describing their work, he wrote, "...gold at $240 a pound is an expensive thing to experiment with; and, after a while it dawned on us that the principle would be the same if we used copper at 15c a pound. So the experiments were transferred to the cheaper metal."
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Gold at 240$?? today this is 20.000$ :-(

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After three years of painstaking labor and a steady draining of their financial resources, Mrs Ingalese produced the first success: the red oil of copper. Richard wrote (in "They Made..."): "We thought that victory was close at had, but found it was still some years away. The fifth year gave us the oil of sulphur, but not until we had many fires and explosions and two asphyxiations. The sixth year produced the oil of mercury, the basis of all Alchemy...
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Oil of Venus, and Mercury :-)

surely you would get nervous, right? .-)

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