"Red lead" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... (red lead) were known from a remote antiquity, although the artificial preparation of vermilion was a secret possessed ...
— Forty Centuries of Ink • David N. Carvalho
... together six parts rosin and one beeswax, and add a small quantity of lampblack; or, if red is preferable, add red lead. Common white wax is best, as most chemicals ...
— American Handbook of the Daguerrotype • Samuel D. Humphrey
... about 1880, when Faure in France and Brush in America broke away from the slow and weary process of "forming" the plates, and hit on clever methods of furnishing them "ready made," so to speak, by dabbing red lead onto lead-grid plates, just as butter is spread on a slice of home-made bread. This brought the storage battery at once into use as a practical, manufactured piece of apparatus; and the world was captivated with the idea. The great English scientist, ...
— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin |
