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

Author

Bishop, J. Leander (John Leander), 1820-1868

Date

• 1868

Publisher

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Edward Young & Co.

Summary

• Dr. John Leander Bishop was a surgeon in the 7th Pennsylvania Reserves during the American Civil War and a division head in the Bureau of Statistics at the time of his death. His three-volume work provides a comprehensive summary of American industry as seen from the mid-19th century vantage point. Volume 1 addresses the survey topically, by type of manufacture. Volume 2 provides annals of manufactures chronologically by decade. Volume 3, credited to the work of Edwin T. Freedley and, for the statistical portion, to Edward Young, gives accounts of the noteworthy manufacturing establishments of the United States grouped by city or region. The volumes provide supporting statistical information compiled by the U.S. Census and other organizations.
• From title page: "With an appendix, containing statistics of the principal manufacturing centres, and descriptions of remarkable manufactories at the present time."