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A history of American manufactures from 1608 to 1860 : exhibiting the origin and growth of the principal mechanic arts and manufactures, from the earliest colonial period to the adoption of the Constitution : and comprising annals of the industry of the United States in machinery, manufactures and useful arts, with a notice of the important inventions, tariffs, and the results of each decennial census
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- 1868
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- Philadelphia: Edward Young & Co.
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- Third edition, revised and enlarged.
- With an appendix, containing statistics of the principal manufacturing centres, and descriptions of remarkable manufactories at the present time. The first issue of v. 1 appeared in 1861. In 1862 Bishop entrusted the completion of the work to Edwin T. Freedley, by whom it was completed, with the aid of Edward Young--cf. Issue of 1866, v. 2, p. 11. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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- A history of American manufactures from 1608 to 1860 : exhibiting the origin and growth of the principal mechanic arts and manufactures, from the earliest colonial period to the adoption of the Constitution : and comprising annals of the industry of the United States in machinery, manufactures and useful arts, with a notice of the important inventions, tariffs, and the results of each decennial census Volume 1 1868
- A history of American manufactures from 1608 to 1860 : exhibiting the origin and growth of the principal mechanic arts and manufactures, from the earliest colonial period to the adoption of the Constitution : and comprising annals of the industry of the United States in machinery, manufactures and useful arts, with a notice of the important inventions, tariffs, and the results of each decennial census Volume 2 1868
- A history of American manufactures from 1608 to 1860 : exhibiting the origin and growth of the principal mechanic arts and manufactures, from the earliest colonial period to the adoption of the Constitution : and comprising annals of the industry of the United States in machinery, manufactures and useful arts, with a notice of the important inventions, tariffs, and the results of each decennial census Volume 3 1868
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- Contributor
- Freedley, Edwin T. (Edwin Troxell), 1827-1904
- Contributor
- Young, Edward, 1814-1909
- Publisher
- Philadelphia: Edward Young & Co.
- Date
- 1868
- Description of Original
- 3 volumes : portraits ; 24 cm
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- Language
- English
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- Pioneer American manufacturers
- A history of American manufactures from 1608 to 1860: vol. I
- [Dedication]
- Preface
- Chapter I: Origin of American manufactures, and a glance at the state of the arts in Europe in the sixteenth century
- Chapter II: Origin of American manufactures continued, and those in Virginia, to the close of the seventeenth century, considered
- Chapter III: Ship-building in the colonies of Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island
- Chapter IV: Ship-building in the middle and southern colonies
- Chapter V: Introduction of saw-mills and manufacture of lumber
- Chapter VI: The introduction of grist and flour-mills into the colonies
- Chapter VII: The establishment of the printing press in the colonies
- Chapter VIII: Colonial paper-mills, type-founderies, and printing-presses
- Chapter IX: Bricks, and the manufactures of clay
- Chapter X: Glass-works in the colonies
- Chapter XI: Brewing and the manufacture of beer
- Chapter XII: Essays in the manufacture of wine in the colonies
- Chapter XIII: The manufacture of salt in the colonies
- Chapter XIV: Of the manufacture of cloth and materials for clothing
- Chapter XV: Of cloth and the materials for clothing continued, from the peace of 1763, with especial reference to the culture of indigo, cotton, and silk
- Chapter XVI: Tanning and the manufactures of leather
- Chapter XVII: Iron, copper, and other metallic manufactures
- Chapter XVIII: Colonial industry in metals--continued ; early efforts in the southern colonies, with a general summary of legislation respecting iron, tables of colonial imports and exports, etc.
- Index to portraits of old printers & eminent type founders
- Index to portraits of eminent modern printers
- Index to portraits of representative leather manufacturers
- Index
- Supplementary index to vol. I
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- Representative American inventors : plate I
- A history of American manufactures from 1608 to 1860: vol. II
- Chapter I: A review of the state and condition of manufactures in the first ten years succeeding the adoption of the Constitution
- Chapter II: Annals of manufactures: 1800-1810
- Chapter III: Annals of manufactures: 1810-1820
- Chapter IV: Annals of manufactures: 1820-1830
- Chapter V: Annals of manufactures: 1830-1840
- Chapter VI: The manufactures of the United States: 1840-1860
- Chapter VII: The manufactures of the United States: 1850-1863
- Index to representative manufacturers
- Index to portraits: American inventors
- Appendix: alphabetical arrangement of the tariffs of the United States, for the years 1842, 1846, 1857, and 1862
- Woolen goods produced in the United States during the year ending June 1, 1860
- Cotton goods produced in the United States during the year ending June 1, 1860
- Index to vol. II
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- Representative manufacturers of New England : plate III
- A history of American manufactures from 1608 to 1860: vol. III
- Introduction to vol. III
- Statistics of the principal manufacturing cities and towns in the United States
- Remarkable manufacturing establishments in Philadelphia
- Manufactures of Pittsburgh
- Manufactures of Baltimore
- Manufactures of New York and Brooklyn
- Manufactures of Newark
- Manufactures of Paterson
- Manufactures of Trenton
- Manufactures of Albany
- Manufactures of Troy
- Manufactures of Rochester
- Manufactures of Buffalo
- Manufacturing centres of New England : Portland, Maine
- Manufactures of Boston
- Manufactures of Lowell
- Manufactures of Lawrence
- Manufactures of Lynn
- Manufactures of Taunton
- Manufactures of Fall River
- Manufactures of Springfield
- Manufactures of Chicopee
- Manufactures of Worcester
- Manufactures of Fitchburgh
- Manufactures of Providence, R.I.
- Manufactures of Hartford
- Manufactures of Meriden
- Manufactures of New Haven
- Manufactures of Bridgeport
- Manufactures of Waterbury
- Manufactures of Middletown, Conn.
- Manufactures of Norwich
- Manufactures of Manchester, N.H.
- Manufactures of Nashua, N.H.
- Manufactures of Concord
- Manufactures of Vermont
- Manufactures of the West
- Manufactures of Cincinnati, Ohio
- Manufactures of Cleveland, Ohio
- Manufactures of Chicago, Illinois
- Manufactures of Detroit, Michigan
- Manufactures of St. Louis
- Manufactures of Wilmington, Delaware
- The great iron works of the United States
- The great hat manufactories of the United States
- The great tobacco manufactories
- A list of principal manufacturers of cotton goods in the United States
- Wool manufacturers in the United States
- Statistics of the production of iron in the United States in 1860, and a list of the principal blast furnaces and rolling mills in the New England, middle, and western states
- Index to vol. III