1872 US Industry Arts tools machine equipment history

THE GREAT INDUSTRIES of the UNITED STATES:
HISTORICAL SUMMARY OF THE ORIGIN, GROWTH, AND PERFECTION OF THE CHIEF INDUSTRIAL ARTS OF THIS COUNTRY:

BY
HORACE GREELEY, LEON CASE, EDWARD HOWLAND, JOHN B GOUGH,
PHILIP RIPLEY, F B PERKINS, J B LYMAN, ALBERT BRISBANE, REV.
E E HALL, AND OTHER EMINENT WRITERS UPON POLITICAL
AND SOCIAL ECONOMY, MECHANICS
MANUFACTURES, ETC., ETC

With over 500 Illustrations

1872

This book is 137 years old!!

COPYRIGHT: 1871 with 1872 on title page
PAGES: 1,304 pgs measuring 6" x 9"
CONDITION: This leather book is in solid reading/research condition that has seem some wear but has rec'd some TLC and is now ready for another 137 years. Leather boards have wear with corner bumping and edge chipping of the leather. The leather boards have now been conditioned and sealed. The spine has been recovered with black binding. Inside front and rear hinges are in good condition with no repairs. New headbands have been installed and the page edges have been cleaned. All pages and covers are tight to the spine. No previous ownership marks, nameplates, inscriptions, etc. Endpapers are toned around the edges. The first and last couple of pages do have edge chipping from disrepair. The text is generally clean with minor foxing.The last half of the book has some large stains on the outside page edges; page are not brittle. There are a few small page-turning tears here and there, but nothing I saw would detract from your reading pleasure. No musty smells. All in all, a good example of this 137-year-old title that has received some TLC.

The illustration lists at the end of each chapter were made from a page-by-page review of the book, so I could give you an accurate list. Most of the factory illustrations are full page but a few are in-text illustrations. I scanned a few pages of both to give you a better idea of the contents so you can make informed bidding decisions about the book.

If you are interested in the history of any sort of business, it's in this book! Take a look at the list of chapters inside the masterpiece! When the history of any trade is discussed, almost always this book is quoted from. There are several companies discussed in the book and I've tried to list them all further down in the description for the convenience of historians and genealogists who need to know specific details before bidding. You won't be disappointed in the content or the illustrations in this 135 year-old book!. Feel free to ask questions and enjoy! There is a lot of information so please take your time to look thru the list of all the topics in this book and ENJOY!! Please feel free to e-mail any questions! The author states: In the following work, the design of the publishers has been, not only to memorialize the great enterprises of manufacture of the day in the United States, but to make clear to the general reader the processes and mysteries of the various manufactures noted, as well. No pains have been spared, in the matter of general study and special investigation, to make each article as nearly perfect as necessary to convey an adequate impression of the magnitude of the manufactures treated upon, their mechanical subtitles, and everything connected therewith, of which the “inquiring mind” may properly desire to be informed. There is a more or less anxious desire, upon the part of every skilled man in particular, in any branch of industry, to know something of the character and pursuits of his fellow-men in every other art of importance; and it is the design of the writers hereof to offer to such, an insight into the various arts which distinguish the present period of scientific industry in the United States of America.

CONTENTS:
I've typed a few of the chapter contents to give you a sample of the scope of the contents, but the book has 1,304 pages and space limits me from including all of the topics covered in each section. The wealth of information in this book is extensive! Please take a few moments to carefully review the chapters listed below.

SEWING MACHINES: American Invention • Evidence of Spirit of Modern Times • Inventions Previous to Sewing Machines • Their Value As Steps Towards It • First Patent • Howe's Patent • Number of Patents Issued • Classification of Sewing Machines • Verdict of Paris Exposition of 1867 • Committee of American Institute • Of Maryland Institute • Points which Manufacturers Now Seek to Reach in Sewing Machines • G F Machine • Its Designer • Points of Its Superiority • Description of Method of Its Construction • Effect of Organization Upon Manufacture of Sewing Machines • Present Prices Compared with Thirty Years Ago • Social Effects of Sewing Machine
Illustrations: Weed Sewing Machine Co, Hartford CT
PRINTING AND PRINTING PRESS: Gem of the Art • Block Books • Discovery of Printing • Early History • Koster • Methlin • John Guttenberg • Faust • Schoeffer • Splendid Specimens of Typography • Spread of the Art in Europe • First Presses in America • Cambridge 'University Press' • William Penn's Printer • Franklin's Press • Practical Printing • Composition • Proof-reading • Imposition • Distribution • Type-setting and Distributing Machines • Job Printing • Printing in Colors • Printing Press • Earl of Stanhope • Nicholson • Konig • London Times • George Clymer • Applegath • Isaac Adams • Napier • Messrs. Hoe • American Presses
Illustrations: Franklin's printing press • Faust's first proof from movable type • Composing stick • Ten cylinder type revolving printing machine • R Hoe large single cylinder printing machine
WATCHES, AND MACHINE WATCH-MAKING: Watch • Origin of the Word • The Bell • Clock: Early History • Clepsydra: Its Etymology: Chinese Use It: Description • Hour Glass: Persian Caliph's gift to Charlemagne • Galileo and the Pendulum • Town Clocks • Manufacture in United States • Construction of the Watch, Etc.
Illustrations: Inside of a simple watch
PURIFYING AND HEATING WATER FOR STEAM BOILERS: Necessity of Pure Water for Steam Boilers • Substances Held in Solution by Water • Tea-Kettle and Steam-Boiler • Methods of Filtering • Stilwell's Lime Catcher • Way It Works • Economic Advantages • Great Safety Gained by Use
Illustrations: Stilwell's Patent heater and lime catcher, No. 1 • Stilwell's patent Heater and Lime Catcher No. 2
STEAM NAVIGATION: Application of Steam to Circulation • Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations • Buckle's Opinion • First Attempts at Steam Navigation • Jonathan Hulls • French Attempts • Attempts in U S • Oliver Evans • Thomas Paine's Suggestions • James Rumsey • John Fitch • Disputed Claim of Priority • Fitch's First Boat • Second Boat • Robert Fulton • Partnership with Livingston • Contest with Monopoly • Legislation in Its Favor • Result of the Contest • Lesson for Present • Attempts in the West • First Boat to Ascend the Mississippi • Ocean Steam Navigation • Improvements in Ocean Streamers • Comparison of Old Methods and Present Ones
Illustrations: Old ocean steamer • Hudson river steamboat
SHIP-BUILDING: Early History • Egyptian, Greek, and Roman Ships • English, Spanish, and French Improvements • American Models • Old Plans Set Aside • Baltimore Clippers Yacht America • Great Republic • Flying Cloud • Building of a Ship • Process of Construction • Laying the Keel • Setting Up Futtocks • Ceiling and Planking • Caulking and Copperings • Launching • Iron Ships • How They Are Built • Superiority Over Wooden Vessels • Greater Strength and Lightness • More Space for Cargo • Water-tight Compartments • Securities Against Sinking • Iron-Clad Floating Batteries • Shipbuilding in U S • Depressed State of Industry
Illustrations: Launch of a packet ship
CABINET AND PARLOR ORGANS:
Progress of Music in US in last 20 years • Multiplicity of Musical Instruments • Origin of Organ, Instrument Derived from 'Pipes of Pan' • Ctesibus, Alexandrian Inventor of 'Hydraulicon' 200 years BC • Ancient Roman Engraving of the Organ on Stone • Pope Vitalian, and Cathedral Organs • Greek Emperor's Present to King Pepin of France, AD755 • Organ From 12th century up to 15th cent • Distinguished Builders of Organs in 15th & 18th Cent. • Iconoclastic Opposition to Organ in England, Under Protectorate of Cromwell • Organ Making as Industrial interest in US • Cabinet and Parlor Organs • Sketch of Invention and Growth in Popular Favor • Mr. Aaron Merrill Peasley and Mr. Emmons Hamlin • 'Mason and Hamlin Organ Company' the Chief Manufacturers of Cabinet Organs • Partial Description of their Establishment
Illustrations: Mason & Hamlin organ • Mason & Hamlin organ
AXES AND PLOWS:
Primitive Axe • Use as Weapon of War • Poet Whitman • Importance of Manufacture of Axes • Chief Manufacturers, Collins & Co. • Vast Establishment at Collinsville CT • Mode of Manufacturing Described • Plows, Ancient Implements • Palestine, Chinese, East India, and Old Norman Plows (illustrated) • Plow in Modern Times • Process of Manufacture of Plows • Collins & Co's Success , with Reasons therefore • Of Future Progress, and Part the Axe and Plow Must Contribute thereto • The 'Revolving Coulter' Plow
Illustrations: Collins & Co Works, Collinsville, CT • View of the steam hammer • Tempering furnace • Ancient plow • Palestine plow • Chinese plow • East Indian plow • Norman plow • Eclipse gang plow • Factory grinding shop • Cast steel Coulter plow
MANUFACTURE OF SALT:
First Salt Work in America • Sending Salt From Virginia to Massachusetts • Solar-Salt-making During Revolution • Works Along Atlantic Coast • Discoveries in Different States and Territories • Deposits of rock Salt • Principal Salt Producing State • Springs and Works at Syracuse • Processes of Manufacture • Solar Evaporation • Boiling and Refining • Amount and Cost of Production
COINAGE, OR MANUFACTURE OF MONEY:
Antiquity of Gold and Silver Money • Earliest Greek and Roman Coins • How Money is Made • US Mint • Gold Coinage • Ingots • Rolling Room • Drawing Machine • Fillets • Planchets • Milling the Edge • Annealing Blanks • Cutting Dies • Transfer or Reducing Lathe • Press • Number of Blanks Stamped in a Minute • Final Process • Bagging Gold • Establishment of Mint at Philadelphia • Improvement and Capacity • Pieces and values in a year • Coining withdrawn from Circulation • Use of Coin in Manufactures and Arts • Curiosities
ICE TRADE:
American Enterprise • Origin and Growth • Frederic Tudor of Boston • First Exports from Massachusetts to the South • Throwing a Cargo Overboard • Ice to Calcutta, Brazil and England • American Ice Abroad • Modern Improvements in Ice-Houses • Uses for Sawdust • Sources of Ice Supply • Quantity Required for New York City • Supplies for the West and South • Value of Ice Crops • How the Crop is Secured • Processes of Grooving, cutting and storing • Artificial Ice
WATER WHEELS:
Idea of Utilizing the Energy of Running Water • Classification of Water Wheels • Theory of Hydraulics • Overshot Wheel • Undershot Wheel • Breast Wheel • Tide Wheel • Turbine Wheels • Their Invention • Their Improvement • Experimental Tests • Introduction into US • Improvements Suggested Here • Eclipse Double turbine • Its Claims, and How It Supports Them
Illustrations: Stilwell & Bierce Manufacturing Co, Dayton Ohio • Stilwell & Bierce turbine waterwheel
LITHOGRAPHY:
Advantages • Inventor • Alois Senefelder, of Bavaria • Progress of the Art in Europe • Introduction in US • First American Specimen • Establishments in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia • Rembrandt Peale as Lithographer • The Stone • Where It Comes From • How Designs are Made • Process of Printing • Etching • Autography • Chromolithography • Paintings Exactly Copied • Fruit, Fish, Flowers and Game • Photolithography • Applications of the Art • Lithotint • Zincography • Number of Lithographic Impressions in a Day • New Lithographic Press • Lithographic Sign-Gliding • Superiority Over Work Done by Hand • Cheapness of Process • Extent of Business • Lithographic Commercial Work
STEREOTYPING AND ELECTROTYPING:
Stereotype Plates • Advantages • Saving Wear of Type • John Muller of Leyden • Van Der Mey • William Ged of Edinburgh • Didots of Paris • Earl Stanhope's Stereotype Press • First Stereotyping in US • Duplicate Forms • Process of Stereotyping • Materials Used • Trimming and Planing Plates • Paper-mache Process • Newspaper Stereotypes • Their Utility • Electrotyping • Chemical and Mechanical Process • Moulds • Galvanic Battery • How Copper facsimiles of Type are Obtained • Copper-faced Type and Important Adjunct to Art of Printing
Illustrations: Stereotype foundry
BOOK MAKING:
Ancient Binding of Manuscripts • Supposed Inventor • Binding in the 13th Cent. • Splendor of Specimens • Progress of the Art • Materials Used • Gold, Silver and Precious Stones • British Bindings • Artists on the Continent • Chevalier Jean Grolier • D'eon • Padeloup • Celebrated London Binders • Roger Payne and Others • Famous Modern Artisans in London and Paris • Book-making in American • First Book in Boston • Earliest Binder • Progress in Boston, New York and Philadelphia • Benjamin Franklin's bindery • The Art • Details of Processes • Use of Machinery • American Inventions • Manufacture of Cases • Process of Putton On • Other Kinds of Work • Marbling, Sprinkling and gilding • Widlam Description Embossing • Book Publishing • Growth of Business in US • Extraordinary Sales of Certain Works • Webster's Spelling Book • 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' • 'Sunshine and Shadow' • Bible Dictionary • Books Sold only by Subscription • Usefulness and Popularity of this Kind of Publishing
Illustrations: Printing the sheets • Folding, gathering and sewing the sheets • Case, Lockwood & Brainard, Hartford CT, office and factory
KNITTING MACHINES:
Netting and Knitting by Hand • Ancient Hose • French Stocking Knitters • First Knitting Machine • William Lee • Machine Knitting in American • Prohibition of Exportation of Knitting Frames • Coxendefer • Michael Trappel • Timothy Bailey • Progress of Industry • Lamb Knitting Machine • What It Can Do • Its Aid for the Women
Illustrations: Lamp Knitting Machine Manufacturing Co, Chicopee Falls, MA • Lamb knitting machine
WRITING PAPER:
Historical Suggestions • Pictorial Writings • Antique Inscriptions • Parchment • Papyrus Plant • Manuscripts found in Herculaneum • Varieties of Paper • History of Manufacture of Paper in US • Process of Manufacture • Holyoke MA, as Centre of Paper Manufacturing Interest • Mr. William Whiting and Mr. Levi Brown
GLUE:
Isinglass in the Last Century • Early Manufactories in the US • Sources of Isinglass • How It Is Made • Its Various Uses • Food for Invalids and Delicacies for the Table • Glue • Materials for Making It • How the Gelatine is Extracted • Cutting Glue Into Sheets • Delicate Work • Watching the Weather • Seasons for Glue-making • Final Processes • Drying, Glossing and Packing • Liquid Glue • Marine Glue • Pioneer Glue-maker • Peter Cooper • His History and Enterprises • His Inventions • A Gigantic Gift to a Great City • Cooper Institute • Free Education for Everybody • What Glue has done for New York
VENEERING:

EDUCATION: ECONOMICAL AND EFFICIENT: Illustrations: Old-fashioned school house • Modern School House • Modern High School • Modern Country School • School furniture • Student desks, settees with Allen's Opera Folding Seats
CUTLERY:
Cutting Tools before Iron Age • Egyptians • Hindoos • Manufacture in Sheffield • Introduction of Forks in England • Manufacture in US • Improved Methods • Detailed Account of New Processes • Description of Russell Manufacturing Co. Works
Illustrations: John Russell Manufacturing Co, Green River Works, MA
CIGARS AND MANUFACTURED TOBACCO:
Introduction of Tobacco Use • King Jame's 'Counterblast' • Calumet • Tobacco in China • Chinese Snuff and Snuff Boxes • Cigars in Various Countries • Cigar Manufactories of US • Process • Byron on Tobacco • Cultivation • Value of Wives in Tobacco • Tobacco Trade • Scientific Examination of Tobacco Effects
CONFECTIONERY: HONEST AND DISHONEST:
Test for Terra Alba Adulteration of Candy • Nature of Terra Alba • Glucose instead of Gum Arabic • Compost in Imitation of Licorice • Poisonous Flavors and Colors • First Account of Sugar • Ridley and Co, Senior House on Western Continent • Rules of Dealing • No Liquor nor Gambling Candy • Materials for Confectionery • Processes • Sugar Boiling Scale • Torpedoes and Mottoes • Swindling in Candy Business Unnecessary
Illustrations: Ridley & Co, New York
SUGAR REFINING:

FIRE DEPARTMENT SUPPLIES:
Improvements in Building • Examples of Conflagrations • Great Fire in London • Fires in Rome • Inventions • First Fire Engine of Modern Times • Air Chamber Introduced • Hose First Invented • Fire Syringes • Steam Fire Engine • Fire Department of Paris; London; United States • First Successful Use of Steam Fire Engines • Present Apparatus Used by Fire Departments • Invention of A F Allen of Providence RI • Spray Nozzle • Automatic Relief Valve • Telegraphing Through the Hose • New Era in Fighting Fire
Illustrations: Fire Engine on duty • Albert F Allen warehouse, Providence, RI • 2 spray nozzles • Automatic relief valve
BRUSHES AND THEIR MANUFACTURE:

CORDAGE:

CURTAIN FIXTURES:

HORSE SHOE NAILS:
Horse Shoes • Their Importance • Their History • Evidence Concerning Their use by the Ancients • First Mention of, in Modern Times • Use as a Charm • Made by Machinery • Horse-shoe Nails • Made by Hand • Machine for Marking Them • Its Success • Their Use in the late Civil War • The Works for their Manufacture
Illustrations: S S Putnam & Co Works, Neponset MA
PETROLEUM:
Where Petroleum is Found • Known Two Thousand Years Ago • Wells of Burmah • Sources • Difference in Samples • Supplies in the US • How the Indians Used the Oil • Use in Surgery • First Discoveries in Ohio • Boring Wells in Pennsylvania • Breaking out of the Oil Fever • Adventurers, Capitalists, Explorers, Speculators • Fortunes • Development • Process of Sinking Wells • Supply Unlimited • Refining Process • Uses • Export
GAS FIXTURES AND LAMPS:
History of Appliances for Lighting • Lamps Among the Ancients • Lamps in St. Peter's • Gas • Manufacture of Gas Fixtures • Description of Factory of Messrs. Cornelius and Sons • Biographical Sketch of the Founder of the House
PIANO-FORTES:
Development in the US • Invention of the Full Iron Frame, the Overstring Square and Grand Piano • Improved Upright • Manufactory of Steinway and Sons • Steinway Hall • American Piano Trade
Illustrations: Chickering & Sons Pianoforte Manufactory, Tremont St. Boston MA
MOWERS AND REAPERS:
Slow Progress of Inventions • Fitzherbert cited • Primitive sickle and mower contrast • Various method of Gathering Grain and Grass from Antiquity to Present Time • Representations on Tombs of Egypt • The 'Ani Ani' of Java • Reaper in Ancient Gaul; Pliny the Elder's Account, Palladius, Arthur Young, Walker • First letters patent granted in England for reaper, 1799 • Other Patents • First Mowing and Reaping Machines very complicated • Salmon's Bell's and Others' machines superseded by the 2-wheeled • Mr. Rufus Dutton's Invention • Dutton's Great Victory • The Clipper Mower and Reaper Co now the Representative Manufacturers • Number of Mowers and Reapers in US • The Self Rake
Illustrations: Clipper Mower at work • Clipper Mower and Reaper Co, Yonkers NY • Another view of the Clipper Mower at work
IRON AND ITS PREPARATION:
Importance • General Diffusion • Egyptians • Bible • Greeks • Romans • Modern Times • Cast Iron • First Production • Improvements • Puddling Iron • Invention of the Blast • Use of Anthracite • Ores of Iron • Making of Iron in US • Early Attempts in Virginia • In Massachusetts • First Furnace • Casting in Sand • Prohibition by Parliament • Cost of a Furnace • Effect of the Revolution • Policy of the Government • Bessemer Process • Application of Spectral Analysis
SAWS AND THEIR MANUFACTURE:
Speculations of Origin of Saw • Scraps of Antique History • Invention of Saw Ascribed by the Greeks • Ancient Egyptians • Earliest Known Saws • Beckmann, Emy, Holtzapffel, Karmarsch, Writers upon the saw • Application of Water, Wind and Steam as Motive Powers of the Saw • Saw Mills into England Violently Opposed • Suppression of Mills by Act of Parliament • Revival of Mills • The Saw in the US • Process of Manufacture • Chief Manufactory of US • Keystone Saw, Tool, Steel, and File Works • Biographical notes on Henry Disston, the Eminent Founder of the Keystone Works
Illustrations: Henry Disston & Son saw blade with latest improved tooth • Keystone Saw Works, Henry Disston & Son, Philadelphia PA
ORNAMENTAL IRON WORK AND BRONZE CASTINGS:
World's Progress over Iron • Iron the Chief Precious Metal • Five Dollars' worth of Iron • Earliest Writers • Iron in its Staple Uses, Considered a means of Ornamentation • Ornamental Iron Work in US • Bronze Casting in Europe • Successful Competition • Robert Wood & Co of Philadelphia PA
Illustrations: Iron Fountain • Brevoort Vase

BILLIARDS AND BILLIARD TABLES:
Industrial and Commercial Importance • Morale of Amusements Considered • Merits of billiards • Pseudo-Moralists and Their False Positions • Necessity of Relaxation from Severe Labor • Oppressed Classes • Old Roman and Egyptian Systems of Amusement • Chess and Billiards Compared • Origin of the Game • Knights Templars • Manufacture of Billiard Tables • Messrs. Phelan and Collender of New York • Parlor billiard and Dining Table • Michael Phelan as an Artist, Manufacturer and Inventor
Illustrations: Phelan and Collender's Works, New York
BELLS, HISTORY AND MANUFACTURE:
Partial History • Consecration of Bells • The 'Passing' Bell • The 'Curfew' Bell • Feast of Osiris • The Codonophorus: His Duties • Schiller's 'Bells' • Electrical Bells • Musical Bells • Large Bells • Great Bell of Moscow • Manufacture of Bells • Inscriptions on Bells, Etc
WIRE-DRAWING:
Oldest Known Methods of Marking Wire • Cutting and Hammering • Hand Drawn Wire • Wire-Making Machinery • Progress of the Industry in Europe • Introduction in America • Universal Use • From Suspension Bridges to Gold Lace • Process of Drawing • Rolling the Rods • Draw-Plate • Finest French Plates are Made • Draw-Bench • Ductility of Different Metals • Rapidity of Drawing • Gauges • Plates for Various Shapes • Perforated Rubies • Ductility of Silver and Platinum • Wires of Astonishing Length and Lightness • Spider Lines for Telescopes
STARCH:

ARTIFICIAL LIMBS:
Tendency of Civilization • Man's Physical and Moral Position in Nature • Cure of Wounds Among Savages • Surgery Among the Egyptians • Surgery Among the Greeks • Among the Romans • Use of Dissection in Study of Anatomy • Surgery Among the Early Christians • Revival of Surgery • Surgery in America • The Cork Leg • Artificial Limbs of Modern Times • Experiments • The Union Artificial Limb Co. of Providence RI
Illustrations: 4 illustrations of artificial limbs
JEWELRY AND ITS MANUFACTURE:

STOVES AND RANGES:

FILES AND THEIR MANUFACTURE:
Great Use of Files • Antiquity • Substitutes • Classification • Process of Manufacture • Annealing • Cutting • Hardening • Testing • Machine-Made Files • Prejudices Against • Reasons for This • American File Co • Character of Their Manufacture
QUILL AND METALLIC PENS:
Ancient Pens • Reeds and Papyrus • Quills and Paper • Goose Quill Trade in Europe • Quill Pen Machines • Invention of Steel Pens • First Patent for Process in America • Joseph Gillotte of Birmingham • Competition and Cheapness • Processes of Manufacture • Steel Pen Making in US
PRINTING INKS:

PAPER HANGINGS:

FIRE PUMPS:
Effect of Gravity on Liquids • How Ancients Overcame It • Pumps Among the Egyptians • Water Raising in the East • Among the Greeks • Romans • Suction Pump • Galileo's Reflections on It • Double-Acting Pumps • Force Pumps • Rotary Pumps • Most Effect Kind • Its Construction • Fales, Jenks, and Sons • History of the Firm • Description of Their Manufactory
Illustrations: Section of a pump • Geared pump • Rotary pump • Pump on bed with outside bearings
THREAD MACHINERY:

COAL:
Coal in England Eight Centuries Ago • Fields in the US • Discovery of Anthracite • First Use • Prejudice Against It • Opening of the Mauch Chunk Mines • Real Beginning of the business • Black Stone and Stone Coal • Anthracite in Rhode Island and Massachusetts • bituminous Beds • Anthracite Fields • Canals and Railways • Wealth of States • Extent of the Coal Regions in the US • Coal Mining • How It Is Carried On • Different Kinds of Mines • Coal Miners as a Class • Coal Mining Companies • Combinations and High Prices • The business a Monopoly
COPPER:

WOOD ENGRAVING:
Mother of the Art of Printing • The Cunios • First Wood Engravings • Playing Cards • Advance in the Art • Process of Wood Engraving • Tools and Material • Drawing the Design • Cutting the Block • Reverse of Steel and Copperplate Engraving • Printing from the Cuts • Universality of Its Use • Zylo-Photography
STEEL AND COPPER-PLATE ENGRAVING:
Antiquity of the Art • Mention In the Bible • Early Greek Engravers • The Chinese • First Impression on Paper • Masso Finiguerra • Oldest Known Copperplate Engraving • Albert Durer, Rembrandt, VanDyke, Raphael • De Liegen and Prince Rupert • Further Discoveries • Art in England • Hogarth • Etching and Finishing • Details of Process • Invention of Engraving on Steel • Jacob Perkins • Transfers • Line Engraving • The Press • Proof Engravings • The Mezzotint • Colonel Ludwig Von Siegen • How Mezzotints are Made • Caspar Lehman • Engraving on Glass • Application of the Art
SCALES:

WHITE LEAD AND PAINTS:

BEDS:
Illustrations: Woven wire mattress • Steamer berths, barracks mattress • Folding cots for hotels • Double complete bed

STEAM AND THE STEAM ENGINE:
First Knowledge of Steam • Vapor Not Steam • Pressure of Atmosphere • Total Heat of Steam • Bulk of Steam Compared with Its Gases • Steam Engine • First Step Towards It • Da Vinci's Steam Gun • Della Porta's Steam Pump • Marquis of Worcester's Invention • Papin's Steam Engine • Other Inventors • Watt's Improvements • Single-acting and Double-Acting Engines • Modern Improvements • Corliss Engine • Rumford Medal • Professor Gray's Remarks • Mr. Corliss' Imitators in Europe • Vast Establishment of George H Corliss, at Providence RI • The Largest Steam Engine Manufactory in the World • Mr. Corliss as a Citizen
CALICO PRINTING:

NARROW GAUGE RAILROADS:
Modern cheap transportation • Outline history of Railways • Tramways of the North of England • Festiniog Railway • Excavation and transportation where permanent railways not wanted • The Peteler Portable Railroad precisely adapted for this business • Mass of such work in ordinary railroad building • Saving by use of Peteler Portable Railway • Facility of handling and moving this railway • Saving in time and money • Facts and details in illustration of this economy • Account of the original invention of the portable railway
Illustrations: Portable railroad in use
SEWING SILK AND MACHINE TWIST:
Illustrations: Nonotuck Silk Co, Florence MA business card
HINGES:
Illustrations: American spiral spring butt hinge • Double action butt hinge (with interior spring illustrations)
FIRE-ARMS:
Improvement in the Style of Modern Fire-Arms • The New Methods of Their Manufacture • Forehand and Wadsworth, Successors of Ethan Allen and Co • Processes Used in their Manfactory • Six-Shooting Revolvers • Breech-Loading Sporting Rifles • Metallic Cartridges • Breech-Loading Double-Barrel Shotguns • Establishment of this House • Mrs. Ethan Allen • His Successors
Illustrations: Six-shooter • Forehand & Wadsworth, Worcester MA, fire arms factory • Breech loading sporting rifle • Breech loading double-barreled shot-gun
LATEST IMPROVEMENTS IN UTILIZATION OF STEAM:
History of Invention • Necessity for Improvement • Law Governing It • Analogies from Nature • History of the Steam Engine • Chief Points in the Utilization of Steam • Test of Indicator Diagrams • Description of the Process • Applications of this Test to the Babcock and Wilcox Engine • Causes of Its Superiority • Steam Jacket • Course of the Improvement of This Engine • Difficulties to be Overcome • Workings of the Engine • Consumption of Fuel • Tubulous Boiler • Its Merits • Its Construction • Premium of the American Institute • Statement of the Judges
ARCHITECTURAL IRON WORK:
Recent use of Iron in architecture • Bridge of Cast Iron in 1773 • First cast iron beams in 1801 • Tubular Bridges • First Cast Iron Buildings • Sentimental opposition to Iron Buildings • Great advantages of Iron as building material • Iron Works of Messrs. Bartlett, Robbins, and Co at Baltimore • The Cast Iron Dog • Beginning and Growth of the Firm • Extent of their Business • Durability of their Hot-water Warming Apparatus • Account of the Departments of their works • Houses as Furnished and fitted by the firm • Capabilities of Iron for Beauty

Illustrations: Bartlett, Robbins & Co Foundry, Baltimore MD
BANK NOTE ENGRAVING:

CLOTHING:
Illustrations: Macullar, William
ARMORED VESSELS AND ARTILLERY:
Iron-Clad Vessels • Robert L Stevens • Stevens Battery • John Ericsson • His Inventions • Congressional Appropriation • First Monitor • The Revolving Turret • New and Larger Monitors • Puritan, Dictator, Monadnock, Miantonomoh, Kalamazoo • Sea Service and Harbor Defense • Ancient Artillery • Chinese the Supposed Inventors • Artillery in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries • Frederick the Great • German Artillerists • Napoleon • Artillery in America • Cannon in The Colonies • Field Guns in the Revolution • Modern Artillery • Description of the Dahlgren, Rodman, Parrott, Wiard, Ames Guns • Great Cannon Foundries of the Country • Weight and Range of Guns • Projectiles and Torpedoes • Uses in the Late War • American Ingenuity and Invention
Illustrations: American ships of war and gunboats • Bombardment of Fort Sumter, 1861

LINEN COLLAR AND CUFF MANUFACTURE:
Illustrations: George B Cluett, Brother & Co Linen Collar Manufacturers, Troy NY
RAILROAD CARS:
Transportation, Travel and Communication of Thought, as Political Influences • Elements of Successful Railroad Operation • Immense Number of Railroad Cars made in the US • Quantity of Work on One Car • American and English Styles of Passenger Cars • Wilmington Makes More Railroad Cars than Any Other of Our Cities • Location of Jackson and Sharp Co.'s Delaware Car Works • Lumber Yard and Mode of Seasoning • History of the Construction of a Car • Time Used • 'Life' of a Car • Weight and Cost of Cars • Number of Trades Concerned in a Car • Jackson and Sharp Co., Shipyard and Marine Railway • The Narrow-Gauge System • Origin and Progress • Narrow-Gauge Passenger Cars Described • Analysis of the Economy and Advantages of the Narrow-Gauge System • Legally Uniform Three-Foot Gauge Recommended
Illustrations: Jackson & Sharp Co Car Works, Wilmington DE
HAIR CLOTH:

FURS AND THE FUR TRADE:

FIRE-WORKS:
Introduction of Fire Works in Europe • Earlier Knowledge of the Chinese • Their Love of Fire Works • Description of Their Displays • Fire-Works in Europe • Materials Used in the Preparation • Their Use for Other Purposes Than Simply Display • Dr Johnson Upon This Matter • Contribution of China to Christianity
CARD CLOTHING:
Illustrations: Sargent Card Clothing Co, Worcester MA
CALLIOPES:

SHOT:

GLOVES:

OIL CLOTH:

THE ALDEN PROCESSES:

SOAP, ITS HISTORY AND MANUFACTURE:
Illustrations: Inside view of E Morgan's Sons soap factory
IRON WORKING MACHINERY:
Iron Age • Spirit of Modern Industry • Working of Iron • Messr.s Wood, Light and Co • Their Contributions to This Art • The Improved Bolt Cutter • Description of Its Working • Double Milling Machine • Automatic Shafting Lathe, Invented by Mr Wood • Cutting-Off and Centering Machine • Planing Iron • Warren Patent Shaping Machine, Invented by Mr Warren • The Down Feeder • Improvements on the Slotting Machine
Illustrations: Wook, Light and Co, Worcester MA • Improved Wood, Light axle lathe
AGRICULTURAL HAND IMPLEMENTS:
Introduction of Machinery into Agriculture • Necessity of Hand Implements • Application of Machinery to their Production • Improvements made in them • The Auburn Manufacturing Company • The Variety of their Wares • Their business facilities • Process of Scythe Making • Socket Hoes and Eye Hoes • Hooks and Forks of all Kinds • Rakes • Wooden Agricultural Implements • Potato Diggers • Branch Establishment in New York • The Company's Works • Extent of their business • Reason for their reputation
LASTS:
Illustrations: Gilman & Townsend turning machine for lasts • Mawhinney's Manufactory, Worcester, MA
GUNPOWDER:
Historic Speculations • Greek Fire • Gunpowder Inventor? • Schwartz • Bacon • Composition • Process • Tested • Early History in This Country • Present Condition of Business • Du Pont's Gunpowder Works
THE EXPRESS BUSINESS:

FANCY LOOM MAKING:
Illustrations: Crompton Loom Works, Worcester, MA • Broad fancy loom
AMERICAN LEAD PENCILS:
Illustrations: American Lead Pencil Co, New York, NY
RULES:
Illustrations: Stephens' patent combination ruler • Stephen's Caliper rule • Combination rule as an Inclinometer
BROOMS:

GOLD MINING:
Yield of Gold by US • Production of California • Romance of Gold Mining • Reality of Science • Origin of Gold • Processes of Gold Mining • Wash Mining • Quartz Mining • Stamp Mill • Chemical Processes • Yield of Gold at Present • Greater Prosperity of the California • Uses of Gold
Illustrations: Gold washing in California Mines • Austin, NE, western mining town • Washing for gold
MERCURY, OR QUICKSILVER:
Knowledge of Quicksilver in Antiquity • Manner in Which Mercury is Found in Nature • Chief Supplies of It • Probable Manner it was Deposited • Mines of Mercury in Europe • In America • Process of Obtaining It • Uses
MIRRORS:

SILK DRESS GOODS:

HATS AND THEIR MANUFACTURE:

ILLUMINATING GAS:
Recent Date of our Knowledge of Gaseous Bodies • First Use of Gas for Illumination • Introduction of Gas into the US • Hygienic Effect of Leaky Gas Pipe • Natural Supplies of Gas • Process of Manufacture • Improvements Made in Methods • Standard for Illumination Power of Gas • Gas Made From Rosin • Extent of Gas Business • Monopoly of the Gas Companies • Advantages They Take Over the Consumers • How Such Matters Must be Reformed
NARROW TEXTILE FABRICS:
Extent and Significance of the Term • Portrait of Mr William H Horstmann • His Life and Business Career • Introduces the Jacquard Loom into the US • Contrast of His Early Work and the Present Concern • Departments of W H Horstmann and Sons' Establishment • Material Room • Spooling Room • Engine Room • Power Loom, Coach lace, and other Weaving Rooms • Silk Room • Sales Departments • Ladies' Dress Trimmings • Notions and Small Wares • Hosiery and Gloves • Zephyr Wools and Embroidery, Regalia, and Theatrical Goods • General Impressions from Viewing the Establishment
Illustrations: William H Horstmann & Sons, factory, Philadelphia PA
CARRIAGE-BUILDING:
Wheels, Numerous and Few • Ancient Two-Wheeled Chariots • Great Improvements in Carriages are Modern • Carriages Useless in Middle Ages • Gradual Introduction of Coaches • First Springs • Superiority of American Wheeled Vehicles • Start in Business of Mr. William D Rogers • Growth of His Business • Extent of Present Premises • Description of the Departments of Establishment • Lumber Department • Smith Shop • Body Room • Painting and Varnishing Room • Dust, how excluded • Wheel Room • Trimming • Mr. Roger's Own Character • Personal Appearance • Continued Supervision • Cheap Work Not Sought • Extent of Home and Foreign Orders
Illustrations: William D Rogers & Co Carriage Builders, Philadelphia PA
FISH-HOOKS AND FISHING TACKLE:
Early Fishhook Makers in America • Fisheries of the Plymouth Colony • Early Manufacture of Hooks in Boston • The Imported • Fishhook Manufacture in England • How the Hooks are Made • Fishing Tackle in the US • Seines and Nets • Rods and Lines • Essentials for the Angler's Apparatus • Flies and Fly Makers • The Wonderful Fish Hook Machine • Dr. C O Crosby, the Inventor • His Needle-making Machine • Biographical Sketch of Crosby • His Romantic and Eventful Life
LUMBER AND LUMBERING:
Terms • Organization of the Business • Lumbering Party in Maine • Size of the Trees • Winter's Camp • Getting the Logs to the Streams • Floating Them to Market • Difficulties and Dangers of the Work • The Saw Mill • Clapboards • Shingles • Extent of the Business • Machinery Used In It • Future Supply
POTTERY AND PORCELAIN:
Early Discovery of the Art • Egyptian Tradition That Was Taught • Art Among Other Nations of Antiquity • Chinese and Japanese • Distinction Between Pottery and Porcelain • Etruscan and Grecian Vases • Portland Vase • Josiah Wedgewood • Natives of Peru • Delft Ware of the Dutch • Famous Manufactories of Europe • Potter's Art Among the American Colonies • Introduction of Porcelain
CARPETS:

STEAM FIRE ENGINES:
Use of Steam Fire Engines • First Steam Fire Engine • First Engine in New York • Introduction of Steam Fire Engines in Cincinnati • Competitive Trial in Boston MA • Button Engine Works • Steam Fire Engines Made By Them • Description of Their Sizes and Styles • Method of Construction • Their Advantages • Demand for Them
Illustrations: London Fire Engine, 1765 • London Fire engine, 1740 • 2 steam fire engines by L Button & Son of Waterford, Saratoga, Co, NY • New York fire engine, 1730; 1733
BRITANNIA WARE:

SCREWS:

LIFE INSURANCE:

THE TARIFF, A PROTECTION TO MANUFACTURES:

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Chances of Inventors • First Suggestion of Photography • Wedgwood and Davy • Niepce and Daguerre • Daguerreotype • The Photograph • Process of Taking Sun Pictures • Talbot • His Improvements • Process of Taking Photographs • Extent of the Business • Ferrotypes • Future of Photography
A NEW METHOD OF TRANSPORTATION (SPHERE, IN PLACE OF WHEEL).
Book states this is in the theoretical stage of development but the authors feel confident about it and wanted to let the readers know about it.]: Methods of Transportation Heretofore Used • New Principle and Its Method • New Road Bed or Track • Mode of Operating the New Method • Manner of Stopping the Spheres • Rate of speed • Cost of Construction • Economy of Management
Illustrations: Packing the sphere • Framework supporting the sphere • Placing the loaded spheres in the tube
GLASS:

FERMENTED LIQUORS:
Beer an Ancient Invention • Tacitus, Concerning German Beer • Beer Incident of the Late Franco-Prussian War • Chinese Ordinance in Regard to the Grape • How Wine is Made in the Celestial Empire • Chinamen, Saturated with Alcohol, Burn Like Candles • Ale Among the Saxons • The Common 'Scripture Dispute' about the word 'Wine" • The Immense Amount of Money Annually Spent in the US for Intoxicating Liquors • The Only Temperance Society in Italy • Theocratic Punishments of Intemperance • Moral Suggestions • Intemperance a Disease
SCREW-WRENCHES:
Illustrations: Screw wrench by A G Coes, patent 1866 • Screw wrench factory of A G Coes, Worcester MA
WOOLEN MANUFACTURES:

MODERN INVENTION IN DOMESTIC INDUSTRY:
Ancient Tambouring Apparatus • Machine for Embroidering • Moses's Acquaintance with Embroidering • Embroidering Machine, Precursor of the Sewing Machine • Industry in the Far East in Moses's Day • Industrial Advance of this Century • "Out West," "Down South, " "Up East" • Comparison of the Present and Colonial Times • Telegraph and the Post Boy • Boston in 1630 and 1790 • Cincinnati in 1788 and in 1850 • Cleveland in 1796 and 1860 • Its Geographical Advantages for Trade • Its Railroad Facilities • Its Manufactures • The Wilson Sewing Machine Co • The Extent of Their business • Principles Upon Which It Is Conducted • Mr Wilson
Illustrations: Wilson Sewing Machine Co, Cleveland OH • 2 Wilson Shuttle Sewing Machines • Wilson Sewing Machine with full cabinet
STEEL:
The Steel Age • Chemical Constitution of Steel • Early Process of Making Steel • Wootz • Damascus Blades • Richard and Saladin • Modern Attempts to Imitate the Damsacus Blades • General Anossoff • Process of Cementation • Varieties of Temper • Definition of Steel • Tests of Steel • Modern Processes of Making Steel • Bessemer Process • Description of It • Professor A K Eaton's Processes • Professor A K Eaton's Processes • Practical and Theoretical Pursuits • Importance of Their Union
GATLING GUN:
Era of Machine Guns • Idea an American One • The Gatling Gun the Pioneer • Its History • Description of Its Mechanism • An Account of How it Is Operated • Personal History of the Inventor • His Other Inventions • Transmission of Power by Compressed Air • Its Use in Europe and This Country • Its Future • The Gatling Gun
Illustrations: The Gatling Gun (full page) • Cartridges used in Gatling Gun
CHEESE AND ITS MANUFACTURE:

CHILLED ROLLS:
Increased Working of Metals In Modern Times • Introduction of the Rolling Mill • Its Effect Upon Metal Working • Manufacture of Rolling Machinery • Farrel Foundry and Machine Co • Process of Making Chilled Rolls • Construction of the Moulds • Casting the Rolls • Finishing the Rolls • Roughing Mills • Finishing Rolls • Grinding the Rolls • Accuracy Process • History of the Establishment of the Farrel Foundry • Its Probable Future
Illustrations: Farrell Foundry and Machine Co, Ansonia, CT
COTTON MANUFACTURES:

CAOUTCHOUC, OR INDIA-RUBBER:

PITCH-PINE AND ITS PRODUCTS:

VARNISH:
Illustrations: Manufactory and warehouse of Berry Bros. Detroit MI
FLOUR:

SILVER MINING:
Illustrations: Discover of silver in Peru • Interior of a silver mine
SAFES AND SAFETY LOCKS:
Change in Nature of Wealth • Safes in Antiquity • Egyptians • Greeks • Romans • Middle Ages • Rob Boy's Safe • First Importation of Safes • First Fire-Proof Safes • Various Methods Proposed • Steam Safes • Locks • Modern Invention of • Lock-Picking a Study • Character of American Safes • The Hall Safe and Lock Co of Cincinnati • Extent of Their Business • Method Used in Constructing Their Safes • Public Appreciation of Them • Biographical Notes of Mr Joseph L Hall
Illustrations: Hall's Safe and Lock Co, Cincinnati, OH • Hall's Fire and Burglar proof save, patent 1849 • Halls' transporting wagon safe, patent 1842
RAILROADS:
Inauguration of the Railroad Era • Growth of the Railroad • Introduction of the Railroad in US • Organization of the Railroad in Europe and the US Compared • Belgian System • Railroad System of England and Its Results • Railroad System in US • Combination vs. Competition • Consolidation and Monopoly • Government Land Grants • Railroad Financiering • Future of the Railroad
Illustrations: Laying track of the Pacific Railroad • Crossing plains in wagon train
ROLLED SHEET BRASS:
Illustrations: Scovill Manufacturing Co, Waterbury, CT
HOISTING MACHINERY:
Illustrations: Otis Bros, Yonkers, NY factory
LEAD AND ZINC:

SMALL NAILS AND TACKS:
Illustrations: A Field & Sons, Taunton MA factory
BANKS AND BANKING:
Illustrations: Park Bank, New York City
FURNITURE:

CHEMICAL MANUFACTURES:
Progress of Modern Genius • Chemistry Practically applied to Agriculture • Triumph Grander than Mechanics • Barren Sand-filed made to Blossom • Professor Eben N Horsford and George F Wilson and their work • Sand Plains of Seekonk • Rumford Chemical Works near Providence RI and Important Productions • Wilson's Ammoniated Superphosphate of Lime and Results • Horsford's Cream of Tartar • Rumford Chemical Works Great Fertilized Farm • Suggestions to the Purchases of Fertilizers
Illustrations: Riverside Works buildings • Rumford buildings
POST OFFICE:

SPOOL-COTTON THREAD:
Illustrations: Willimantic Linen Co, Willimantic, CT
CLOCKS:

PAPER FURNISHING GOODS:
Illustrations: Pay & Taylor, Springfield, MA factory

FIRE INSURANCE:

LINEN FIRE HOSE:

THE TREASURY:

CHURCH ORGANS:

COMBS:

BUTTONS:

HOTELS:

HYDRAULIC WATER POWER:
Man's First Conception • First Proposal to Build a Dam • Spanish Cortez and the Dutch • Steam as a Power • Wind • Sunlight • Estimate of Possible Water Power • Modern Society Founded of Industry • The Connecticut • The Hadley Falls Co • The Loss of the First Dam • The Second Dam Built • The Holyoke Water Power Co • Its Success • Dam Strengthened • History of Holyoke

FISH CULTURE:

GAS AND WATER PIPE:

NEWSPAPERS:
Illustrations: R Hoe & Co. newspaper addressing machine in cabinet • R Hoe newspaper addressing machine on iron stand

MATCHES:
Illustrations: Swift & Courtney & Beecher Co, Wilmington DE • Swift & Courtney & Beecher Co, Westville CT factory

AMERICAN MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH:
Illustrations: Signal telegraph • Electro-magnetic telegraph

LADIES’ BOOTS AND SHOES:
Illustrations: Shoemaker's hop of old times • B F Spinney & Co, Lynn MA, interior of bottoming room in factory • View of Lynn, MA from Forest Place • View of Lynn, MA from Sadler's Rock

WOOD TYPE:
Illustrations: Wood type and border illustration cut by machinery of W H Page & Co, Greenville CT

CARRIAGE AXLES AND SPRINGS:
Illustrations: 12 illustrations of springs and axles manufactured by the Mowry Axle and Machine Co, Greenville CT • Reed and Bowen Punch machine • Jonathan West's American Tire Setter machine

STENCIL PLATES:

HOOKS and EYES:

PINS:

QUARRIES:
First granite used in US • Old foundations and walls • The Quincy Granite • First railroad in the country • The Granite Hills of New England • The Astor House and other great granite buildings • How granite is quarried • Paving Stones • American Marbles • Statuary marbles of Vermont • Variegated marbles in various states • The Capitol at Washington • Serpentine and Verd antique • Westchester and Sing Sing Stone • Extent of import, export, and manufacture of marble is US • Brown Freestone • The Portland Quarries • New Jersey Stone • Hudson River Flagging and Curbing Stone • Quarries throughout the country • Slate quarries • Grindstones and Millstones


NAMES and ITEMS FROM THE INDEX LISTED HERE TO HELP IN GENEALOGICAL and HISTORICAL RESEARCHES: Accidents in hoisting, prevented • Adams, Alvin • Adams Express • Adams press • Adulteration of candy, tests; white lead; soap • Ages of Stone, Bronze, Iron • Agricola, G, De Be Metallica • Agricultural Hand Implements • Agriculture • Alcoholic liquors • Charles Alden invents condensed milk • Alden Processes; account; Prof. Krackowizer's report; softness of fruit, etc.; results; cost • Alden, T, type-setting machine • M Aldiw • Ale or beer, antiquity • Alibert, M • A F Allen • Allen breech-loaders • Edwin Allen • Ethan Allen, notice, fire-arm patents • Otis Allen • Almaden, quicksilver mines • Amber • America yacht • American Bank Note Co • American Dairymen's Association • American Express Co • American Fish-hook and Needle Co • American Fur Co • American Lead Pencils • American Lead Pencil Co, works; testimonials to pencils • American Magnetic Telegraph • American ornamental ironwork • American Spiral Spring Butt Co; description, cuts of hinges; extent of use of hinges • Ames' guns • Anime • Annealing glass • Annealing wire • Annuities • Gen. Anossoff, steel made • Anthracite coal; introduction; iron smelting • Applegath & Cowper's Press • Appleton, T, organs • Aquatint engraving • Aqueducts, Roman • Archimedean screw • Archimedes • Architectural Iron Work • Architecture, iron • Arkwright, R • Armored Vessels and Artillery • Arras (tapestry) • Arsenic, used in shot • Art Museums • Artificial Limbs; improved in war; Union Artificial Limb Co • Artillery, ancient; America; Revolutionary, anecdote; US foundries; Dahlgren's; Rodman's; Parrot's; Wiard's; Ames' • Assignats • Associated Press • Astor, J J, and fur trade • Auburn Manufacturing Co.; New York Branch; lands and works • Autography • Automatic Relief Valve (fire hose) • Axes and plows • Axes, process of making; varieties • Axles, carriage

Babbitt metals • Isaac Babbitt • Babcock & Wilcox steam engine • Alpheus Babcock • Backers, A • Bacon, Roger • Bailey, Timothy • Balloon framing • Baltimore, Architectural Iron Works • Baltimore clippers • Bank of England; monopoly • Bank of US • Bank-note engraving; processes • Bank-notes, European and American; US Treas. and Nat. Bank • Banks and Banking; early European; English; goldsmiths; during rebellion; early US; financial crisis; New York system; national, circulation • Barberini Vase • Barker's Mill • A and R Barr • Bartlett ore, zinc paint • Bartlett, Robbins & Co, Architectural Iron Works; heating apparatus; foundries and works • Bashan, ancient cities • Bayeux Tapestry • Beams, iron • Beard, Thomas • Beauvais carpets • Beck, Paul, shot-tower • Beds; history; Queen Elizabeth's; construction; feather, evils of; woven and wire mattress • Beecher, A & Sons • Beecher, H W, paper collars; and Sapolio • Beer, antiquity; German; Chinese, rice; Saxons and Danes; England • Beet-sugar • Belgium, glass-making; Railroad system • Bell, Rev. P, reaper • Bells; history; baptism of; electrical; musical; large ones; Moscow; Chinese; weight; US; making; steel; metal; inscriptions • Bentham, Gen. • Benzoin • Bernot, E., file machine • Berry Bros., Varnish • Berthoud on clocks • Bessemer iron, qualities; process; steel • Bible, soap • Biddis, J, potato-starch patent • Bigelow, E R, carpet loom; wool-weaving patents • Billiard Tables; Phelan & Collender's works • Billiards, popularity; history • Bills of mortality • Bituminous coal • Black lead; artificial • Black walnut furniture • Blanchard, T • Blanchard, nail machine • Bleaching calico • Bog iron ore • Boiler, Babcock & Wilcox's • Boiler-plates, rolling • Boilers, purifying water • Bolt cutter, Wood, Light & Co.'s • Bombshell, Stevens • Bonnets, straw • Bookbinding, early; first American; processes • Books, manufacture • Boot sewing machine • Borrowdale mine • Boston Watch Company • Bottcher, invents porcelain • Bottle, cost $30,000 • Boxwood, for engraving; for rules • Boyce, J, patent reaper • Boyden, U A • Bradford, Wm • Braiding machines • Braithwaite, steam fire-engines • Bramah lock • Branca's steam wheel • Brandy of corn • Brass, Rolled Sheet; discovery; modern improvements; Waterbury manufacture; processes • Breast wheels • Brick, brick houses • Bridges, Edmund • Bridges, iron first used for • Briggs, Samuel • Brisbane, A, new transportation • Bristles, scarcity • Britannia ware • British manufactures, advantages over American • Broad and Narrow Gauge RR cars • Bromine in photography • Bronze statuary • Broom-corn • Brooms; making; value of product • Brush manufacture • Brushes, anciently unknown; materials; processes of making • Bucket wheels • Building • Building, advantages of iron • Burden, H, horse-shoe machine • Burglar, qualifications of • Burke, P B • Burleson, A B • Button, L, fire engine inventions • Button engine works • Button engines, merits • Buttons and their manufacture, ancient substitutes: materials; collections; varieties; making • Butts, of American Spiral Spring Butt Co

C O D • Cabinet and Parlor Organs • Culamide stone • Calico, origin • Calico-printing; England; prohibited; in US; details of process; cylinder • California, gold; quicksilver; wheat • Calliopes • Calking ships • Caloric engine • Calumet • Camphene • Candy • Cannon see Artillery; first cast in England • Caoutchouc • Carbonate of soda and steel • Carbonic acid gas, and steel • Card clothing • Cards (for cotton and wool); Americat inventions; processes of making • Carhart, J, improved organs • Carlisle life tables • Carolina, silk culture • Carpets; Eastern use; ancient; substitutes in England; first English manuf; first French manuf; in US; rag, straw; Bigelow, E B, loom • Carr, E W • Carriage axles and springs; manufacture in US; materials used; process of manufacture • Carriage-building • Carriages, history; ancient German; excellence of American; Wm. D Rogers & Co; lumber supply; making: care in painting • Cars, Railroad • Cartridge, first metallic • Case, Lockwood & Brainard • Cast iron, first in US: welding; R Wood & Co.'s, work; first; houses, first in NY; steel • Casting chilled rolls • Caswell, E S • Cattle, colonial • Caulking ships • Caus, Solomon de • Cedar, pencils • Cementation • Censuses • Chain-stitch • Chairs, ancient; American • Challenge with glove • Chandelier made • Charcoal, for powder • Chariots, Solomon's time • Charlemagne's post office • Chase, Salmon P • Cheese manufacture; origin and growth; apparatus and process • Chemical manufactures • Chemistry, photography • Chevreul, labors fats and oils • Chicago Academy • Chicago fire • Chilled Rolls and Rolling Machinery • Chimes • China, beer and brandy; bells; fire-works, porcelain; smoking, engraving; fish culture; gunpowder; printing • China-blue calico • Chouteau Bros, fur trade • Chromo lithography • Church organs • Cigars, making • Cigars and tobacco • Cincinnati, rapid growth; steam fire engines • Cinnabir • Clearing house for banks • Clepsydra • Cleveland, rapid growth • Clinton, E • Clinton & Co. brush factory • Clipper mower • Clipper Mower and Reaper Co. • Clippers • Clock, origin • Clocks; referred to by Dante; of Strasburg; other famous clocks; Berthoudon history; English and French make; Connecticut wooden; Jerome's brass • Clothes, sewing thought wrong; history • Clothing See Linen Collars,  • Clothing; home made; history of making; ready-made; second-hand, wholesale; felt seamless; wholesale, business how done; Macullar, Williams & Parker • Cluett, Geo B. & Brother, collar and cuff business • Clymer's Press • Coach lace looms • Coal; Newcastle, ancient; internal improvements; mining; anthracite, iron smelting;  gas • Coes, A. G. & Co, wrenches; works • Coining of money • Coins, U S Mint collectiont• Collars, linen • Collars, paper; Ray & Taylor's manufactory; making; names of styles • Collection by express • Collins, Sam. W • Collins & Co., axe factory; plow business; trade-mark • Collinsville • Collodion in photography • Columbian press • Combs, ancients used • Combs; materials for; first patent in US; leaden; India- rubber and ivory • Composition (printing) • Comstock vein; yield • Condensed milk, invented • Confectionery; Ridley & Co.'s; healthful if pure; materials, processes • Congreve rockets • Connecticut, copper; silk culture • Connecticut clocks • Connecticut River water powert• Considerant, V, paper money scheme • Conte, M • Cooking stoves • Copal gum • Copal varnish • Copper; mining in US; in Conn.; Lake Superior; mode of • Copper and steel engraving • Coppering ships • Copper-plate, oldest • Cordage; American manuf; old and recent processes; wire • Corliss, George H, steam inventions • Corliss steam engine • Corliss Steam Engine Co; their works • Corn-starch, manufactories in US • Cornelius & Sons, gas fixture works • Cornell University chimes • Cort, H • Costume, silk dress goods • Cotton crop, used and exported • Cotton, culture; processes of manufacture; patents for making • Cotton fabrics, ancient; oriental • Cotton Manufacture • Cotton manufacture, importance to England • Cotton thread; of Willimantic Linen Co; machines • Coulter, revolving • Courtney, H B • Cradles for grain • Crispin Organization • Crittenden, carding invention • Crompton, George; inventions • Crompton, S • Crompton. S, mule • Crompton Loom Works • Crosby, Dr C O, fish-hook machine; needle machine; other inventions • Crystal Palace, NY, burning • Ctesibius, inventor • Cuffs, linen • Cumberland lead • Cunio, engravers • Curfew bell • Curtains; in Moses tabernacle; Putnam's self-adjusting fixture; Putnam's improvements • Cutlery • Cyanogen in making steel • Cylinder Presses

Daguerre, Daguerreotype • Dagyr, John Adam • Dahlgren, J A, and his guns • Damascus steel: for guns • Dammar • Decoration • Delaware Car Works • Delft ware • Dennison, A L • Derringer pistols • Detmold, C E, smelting invention • Dinsmore, Wm. B • Discrimination in taxes • Disston, H, biography; invention for saws • Disston, H. & Son • Distaff • Division of labor • Domestic industry, modern inventions • Doors, ancient • Double-chain stitch • Double milling machine, Wood, Light & Co.'s • Dow, P, and D Treadwell • Dresden China • Dress. See Linen Collars etc. • Dress, silk dress goods • Dress, distinctions; fastenings • Dryer in varnish • Drying fruits etc., by Alden Process • Dudley, Lord, iron patent • Duel, glove • Duncan, J, embroidering • Dupont de Nemours, gunpowder • Durand, A B • Dutton, R, mower

Earthenware • Eating, ancient manners • Eaton, A K, alumina safes; cyanogen steel; carbonate of soda process • Eclipse Turbine Wheel • Education • Egypt, ancient, iron; locks and keys; looms; mirrors; pottery; glass; furniture; pumps; engraving; calico-printing; hinges; surgery • Electrical bells • Electro phorus • Electrotyping • Elephants, enjoy decoration • Elevators (hoisting machinery) • Elevators, wheel • Eliot, Rev. Jared • Elm City Ruffle Co • Embroidering, by machine; in Bible • Enamel • England, ancient iron mines; iron manufacture; prohibits iron works in America; forbids artificers to emigrate: prohibited American hat-making; railroad system; prohibits nail-making in America • Engraving, tools and process; on steel; line; printing; aquatint; glass • Engraving, bank note • Engraving on wood; steel and copper; invention; mezzotint • Envelopes, tint blocks for • Ericsson, J; file machine • Ermine • Etching • Evans, Oliver; carding; steamboat inventor • Exchange business • Express business; rise and course: capital; collecting business; railroad arrangements; danger from robbers; business methods; aid to army rebellion; relations to public

Faber, lead pencils • Faber du Four, hot blast • Fairfield, George • Fales, Jenks & Sons, pumps; thread machinery • Fancy loom making • Farm, G F Wilson's at Seekonk • Farming see Agricultural, Agriculture, Plows, Reaper and Mower • Farrel, Almon and Franklin • Farrel Foundry and Machine Co., (chilled rolls) • Faust, John • Featherbeds, evil of • Felt seamless clothing • Felting, for hats • Fermented Liquors, article by John B Gough • Ferrotypes • Ferrules • Field, Albert • Field, A. & Sons, nail-works • Files; antiquity; descriptions; process of making: machine made • Finiguerra, M • Fire apparatus, Allen's • Fire-arms; Forehand & Wadsworth's • Fire Department Supplies • Fire Engine, Button's inventions; number made and used • Fire engine, steam • Fire engines; early; modern, first • Fire insurance; US, before Revolution; speculative nature; large investments; state government departments; national proposed • Fire pumps • Fires, liability; Roman sipko; ancient Rome; 15th and 16th centuries; losses; Paris management; London • Fireworks; materials • Fish, fecundity; as food; supply, how preserved • Fish culture; ancient: re-discovered by Pinchon; Jacobi; developed by Remy and Gehin; French; Scotch and Irish, modes of, profits; state action for • Fish glue • Fitch, J, steamboat; and Rumsey, priority • Fitzherbert on sheep • Flags; demand • Flax in Virginia • Florence, Mass, twist made • Flour, manufacture; crops of various localities; test of best; inspection and branding • Foaming prevented, boilers • Force pumps • Forehand & Wadsworth's fire-arms • Forks, for hay, etc; making • Founding of chilled rolls • Foundry of Bartlett, Robbing & Co • Fountain pen • Fourdriuier machine • Fourneyron, B • France, fish culture; furniture from • Franklin, B, and paper mills; postmaster • Franklin stoves • Freestone • French, succeed with savages • French & Hawkins, reaper • Fruit, Alden processes; ripened; softness • Fulling or belting woolen • Fulton, R, steamboat; torpedoes • Fur, in hat making • Fur and Fur trade • Fur, clothing; use of costly; history of trade; American trade; best: kinds • Fur Trade, French; French and English compete, in US • Furniture; ancient; mediaeval; of time of Louis XIV and XV; in US; mahogany, native woods

Gale, Lorenzo D • Galena (lead ore) • Galileo • Garay, Blasco de • Gas, extent of use; capital invested; monopoly • Gas, illuminating; first; US; constituents; making • Gas fixtures and lamps; processes of making • Gas and water pipes; process of making • Gatling gun; history of invention; construction; operation • Gatling, R J Dr; inventions • Gay & Co, express • Gear, heavy • Ged, Wm. • Geisenhainer, F W, hot blast • Georgia, silk culture • German silver • Gillott, J, pens • Gilman & Townsend • Gladstone, reaper patent • Glass; among ancients; Venetian; in England; in Belgium; kinds; devitrified; qualities of kinds; early in US • Glass, engraving • Glass negatives for photographs • Gloves; making contracts; ancient and mediaeval; challenging; materials; where made; costliness of early • Glucose in gum drops • Glue; process of making • Gobelins, carpets; tapestry • Gold mining • Gold, product in US to 1867; California, total; geology; mining; panning and washing; amalgamating; sluicing; rocker; hydraulic mining; quartz mining; stamping mill; Plattner process; yield in California; mode of consumption • Gold and silver, coining • Golding, E, silk culture • Goldsmiths, as bankers • Goodrich, W M • Goodyear's patents • Gough, John B., article on fermented liquors • Gould & Curry mine • Granby coppers • Granite • Graphite • Grass Valley gold mines • Greek fire • Greeley, H, tariff • Green River Works • Greenbacks • Greenough, James • Gunpowder; history; making; testing; force; making in America • Guttemberg

Hadley Falls Co; dam; waterpower • Hair cloth; US; Lindsley's loom; processes • Hall, Joseph L • Hall Safe & Lock Co • Halley's life tables • Hamlin, E, improved reed organs • Hammond, Andrew • Handles • Hansards, Hanseatic League • Hard water • Hargreaves, J • Harnden, Wm. F, and express • Harpsichord • Hartford, Woven Wire Mattresses • Hats; care; American manufacture; same, England prohibited; US, value; making; fur, silk and straw; Panama; palm leaf; H A Wells' patent; effect of tariff • Havens, Mr, gas purifying • Hayden, Joel • Hazard Powder Co • Hazzard, E, and J White • Heat in making steam • Heating apparatus of Bartlett, Robbins & Co • Heath, steel making • Hecht Bros., lead pencils • Hemp, growth in US • Henchman, D • Henry, Joseph • Hero, of Alexandria • High pressure engine, first • Hill, R, cheap postage • Hinges; ancient; modern patent, American Spiral Spring Butt Co • Hobbs, picks English locks • Hodges, steam fire engine • Hodgkinson, strength of beams • Hoe's Press • Hoes, making; socket hoes, shank hoes, eye hoes • Hoisting machinery; requisites for safety; Otis, Bros.. & Co.'s works • Holyoke Water Power Co • Holyoke, town • Hooks and Eyes • Hope Iron Works • Horstmann, W H • Horstmann & Sons, textile fabrics; extent of works; account of establishment; sales-rooms • Horse-hair, for hair cloth • Horse-shoe nails: machine; opposition to new; importance of good • Horse shoes, ancient; Bordeu's machine • Horsford, Prof. E N • Horsford & Wilson's chemical manufactory • Hose (stockings) • Hose, fire; early invention; first practical: importance for fire engines; manufactories; N E Linen Hose Manuf. Co • Hot blast furnace • Hot water for warming houses • Hotels; old fashioned; modern; American; European plan • Hour-glass • House-building in American colonies; brick; early colonial; improved • Houses, ancient and modern; iron • Howard, Edward • Howard, E & Co • Howe, Elias, Jr • Howe, Dr. J I, and pin machine • Howland, B. J, on railroads • Hudson's Hay Company • Huningue, fish culture • Hunt, Walter, invented paper collars • Hunter's screw • Hussey, O, reaper • Hydrants • Hydraulic mining for gold; hose • Hydraulic water power

Ice trade • Ice, machine made • Idria, quicksilver mines • Illuminating Gas • Implements, agricultural • India, calico printing • India Rubber; trees affording; collection; chemical analysis; process of manufacture; elastic cloths; vulcanizing; extent of use; fire hose • Indicator diagrams • Industry in US, history; Revolution; effects of imports; Hamilton's services • Inclinometer • Indian corn, starch from • Ink, printing • Insurance; origin • Inventions in domestic industry • Intemperance a sin • Iron. See Wire rope; piano-forte; Virginia; building; ships • Iron; history of use; early mines in Europe; cast, first; ores; making in US; foundry, first in US; re-established in US; usefulness and value; ornament; architecture; architecture; first used for bridges; houses and ships; beam; first houses of in NY; supposed sinfulness of buildings; advantages in building; development of use; Wood, Light & Co lathe; planing, Warren's machines; Swedish, used by Auburn Manuf. Co; water-pipes • Iron-clad ships • Ironwork, ornamental • Iron working machinery, Wood, Light & Co; works • Isinglass • Italians, fireworks • Ivoride • Ivory, combs; veneers

Jackson, Gen • Jackson & Sharp Co, works; arrangement • Jacquard Looms • Jefferson, J improved plow • Jenny, Arkwright's • Jerome, C, one day clocks • Jewel, derivation of word • Jewelry, extent of love of; ancient and oriental, in US, manufacture • Job Printing • Johnson, Dr. against fireworks • Johonnot's school-houses, fire-works

Kaolin • Kellogg, Edward, monetary system • Kellogg, George • Kertland, Philip • Keystone Saw, Tool, Steel and File Works • Knife making • Knitting machines; first • Knives, for corn, etc • Knives and forks, ancient • Konig's Press • Koster, L • Krackowizer on Alden process

Labor and amusement • Lac • Ladies' shoes; manufacture in US; styles; process of manufacture • Lager bier • Lake Superior copper • Lamb, I. W • Lamb Knitting Machine • Lamp, Cornelius's • Lamps; ancient • Lasts, requisites for making; machinery; material, making • Lathe, for irregular forms • Lathe for shafting, Wood, Light & Co • Latta, A B • Launching ship • Law, Governor, silk clothes • Lawrence, Samuel • Lawrence, city • Lead mines of US; smelting; uses • Lead pencils; history; grades; making, by Am. Lead P; kinds, demand • Lead pipe, making • Lead, shot made • Lead and zinc • Leaden combs • Lee. Wm, knitting machine • Legray, photographer • Lehman C • Leonard, H & J • L'Hommedieu E • Life insurance; first treatise, DeWit; life-tables; in the US, Phoenix Co., of Hartford • Lime, purifying gas • Lincoln, bronze statue • Lindsley, Isaac • Line engraving • Linen collars and cuffs; process of making • Linen fire-hose; mode of making, India-rubber lining; testimonials • Lithographic stone in US • Lithography • Lithotint • Livingston, E and steamboats • Lock-stitch • Locks, safety; ancient; Bramah; picked; Chubb's, Pyes; Yale's; Hall Safe and Lock Co • Locomotive, thought absurd; Stephenson's 'Rocket': first in US • Lombard Street bankers • London, great fire, fires in • Looking-glasses • Loom, Bigelow s carpet • Looms, fancy; ancient; Crompton works, Messrs. Crompton's improvements; making; fancy and common; Jacquard • Loop-stitch • Louisiana, silk culture • Lumber, American • Lumber and lumbering; forest life, river driving; saw-mills

Machetes • Macullar, Williams & Parker; building, business • Madder style ot calico • Madison on protection • Magnetism, Pliny • Mahogany • Mall-coaches, Palmer's • Marine Railway, Jackson & Sharp's • Majolica • Mansfield, Ct . silk culture • Mansfield Silk Co • Manufactures, American, need protection; advantages of British; American, excellence • Manufacturing, law of success • Maple sugar • Marble, quarries • Marbling in book-binding • Martin, Eugene • Mason & Hamin, organs; factories and salesrooms; improvements; tests and guarantees • Massachusetts, industrial history; ship-building: iron mining; silk culture; glass making • Mastic • Matches; first patent; manufacture • Mattresses, how made • Mawhinney, Samuel; last manufactories • Mazarine Bible • McKay Sewing Machine • Mears, R., reaper patent • Mercury; sources of supply; uses; mirrors • Merrick, S, screw wrench • Metals, domestic utensils • Metcalf, Betsy, and straw bonnets • Mezzotint engraving • Micrometer screws • Milk, condensed, Alden invents • Miller, E L • Miller and Symington's steamboat • Mining of coal; gold • Mining, silver • Mint at Phila., operations • Mints • Mirrors; history; ancient metallic; extravagance; satires; invention of glass; making • Mitrailleuse, from Gatling gun • Money. See Banks • Money, ancient and modern; paper; government to provide; Considerant's scheme; Kellogg's scheme; specie and substitutes • Money and produce prices • MO system; in US • Monitor, Ericsson's; dimensions and arrangement • Moore, Joseph, Jr. • Mordants • Morgan's, E, Sons, soap factory; sapolio; history of firm • Morse, S F B, and telegraph; as an inventor • Morus multicaulis • Moscow, bells • Mottoes • Mowers and reapers • Mowry Axle and Machine Co • Mowry, Samuel • Musical bells

Nails and tacks • Nails, antiquity; made in England; first machines; first in US • Napier Press • Narrow-gauge railroads • Narrow gauge roads and cars; Mr Poor does not name; extent of use; details of cars; saving in expense; Rosecrans; first in New England • Narrow Textile Fabrics • National Banks • National Button Co • National Foundry and Pipe Works; history • Navigation See Ships, Ship-building • Neilson's hot blast • Nevada silver yield, 1861-5 • New Almaden, quicksilver • Newbold, C., plow • Newcomen, Thomas • New England Linen Hose Manuf. Co • New England Screw Co • Newspapers; published in US; stereotyped, New York, banking system; insurance department • Nicholson's Press • Nicot, J • Niepee and Daguerre • Niles, N • Nonotuck Silk Co • Northwest Co., (furs) • Nott's stoves

Ocean steamer, first • Ogden, A, and steamboat monopoly • Ogle, H, reaper • O'Hara, Gen., and glass making • Oil cloth; process of making • Oil of turpentine • Onoudaga salt springs • Oregon, lumber; wheat • Organ, word, in Bible • Organs, cabinet and parlor; origin; details of early • Organs, church; ancient; pedals; Puritans destroyed: books; first builder in US; requisites of builder; at Boston and New York • Ornament, iron • Ornamental Ironwork • Ornamenting, custom • Otis, Bros. & Co, hoisting machinery; manufactory • Overshot wheels

Packet sloops • Packets, early, in Ohio • Page, Wm. H biography • Page, Wm. H & Co, and wood type; their factory; machines • Paine, T • Paint, zinc • Painting carriages • Painting of oil cloth • Paints; materials; preparation; early objection to in US • Palace cars • Palladium, on reaper • Palmer, John, mail coaches • Palm-leaf hats • Panama hats • Paper, albumenized; articles of dress; Invented; uses; writing • Paper boxes, machine • Paper collars • Paper furnishing goods • Paper Hangings; first in the US; American manufacture; making; wooden • Paper-making, early; steam • Paper mills, first; in US; in Mass. • Paper money; in France and US; irredeemable • Papin, Denis • Papyrus • Pare, A • Parish Registers • Parrott guns • Pascal, B • Paterson, Wm. • Payne, Roger • Peacock, D, lock coulter • Peasley, A M, invented reed • Peat, at Seekonk • Pendleton, W S • Pens • Perkins, Jacob; engraving; machines • Perrot, M, and the Perrotine • Peru, pottery • Peteler, A, and brother • Peteler Portable Railroad; economy and convenience • Petroleum; sources; oil fever • Pewter dishes • Phelam, Michael • Phelan & Collender, billiard table manuf; patents • Phillatius • Phillips, S, powder mill • Phoenix Life Ins Co • Phosphate of lime, manufactory • Phosphates in food • Photography; history; processes; albumenized paper; extent of business • Photolithography • Piano-forte • Piano-forte, manuf in US; first invention • Pins • Pipes of Peace • Pipes, iron • Pistols, repeating, Forehand & Wadsworth • Pitch • Pitch-pine and its products; annual value • Pittsburg National Foundry and Pipe Works • Planing iron; Warren's machine • Platform scales • Pliny, on reaper • Plough, steam • Plow, history • Plows and axes • Plucknett, T J , reaper patent • Plumbago (black lead) • Poisons in candies • Polish, artificial and natural • Poor, H V • Poor Man's Bible • Pope, Frank G • Pope, John, and stencils • Population, records • Porcelain, Chinese and Japanese; Saxons; Sevres; in US; art training • Porta, J B della • Porter & Co, brass works • Portland Vase • Post, ancient; Charlemagne's; early European • Post Ofiice; espionage; of US, colonial; federal; postage rates; policy of US department; usefulness • Postage, cheap • Postal Savings Bank • Potato starch • Potato digger • Potato hooks • Pottery; American colonies; in East; Peru; Brazilian; Dutch • Pottery and Porcelain: distinction; preservation of museums; majolica • Power, transmission through air-pipes • Pratt, S • Prices, legal, • Printing, printing press; first in US; in colors; presses • Printing, of engravings • Printing Ink; colored • Printing of oil cloth • Pritchard, Thos. F • Proof-reading • Prospecting for silver • Protection • Protection (article on tariff), by Horace Qreeley • Providence, jewelry trade; screws made • Publishing business in U S; by subscription • Puddling, invented • Pumps, fire • Pumps, ancient Egyptian; common, origin; force; rotary • Putnam, Silas S, horse-shoe nail machine • Putnam, S S, sketch; curtain fixtures • Putuam, S S & Co

Quarries • Quartz mining for gold • Queen's Ware • Quicksilver • Quill and metallic pens • Quill pens, how made • Quimby, M T & Co, jewelry house

Rakes, garden, lawn, and hay • Railroad cars; number on single roads; American style; process of making; cost of styles; trades employed on; narrow gauge • Railroads; growth; introduction into US; South Carolina RR first in US; in Europe and US; Belgian system; fares and freights, profits by lowering ; English system; panic; bankrupt; US system; competition and combination; consolidation and monopoly; land grants ; financiering; watering stock; future; cost of running • Railroads, narrow gauge; and the public, in England, Belgium, etc; in US; rate of increase in US; uniform gauge • Raleigh, W • Ranges and stoves • Rasps, what; descriptions • Rawson, E • Ray & Taylor, paper collar manufactory; inventions and patents • Ready made clothing • Reapers and mowers • Reaper, in Pliny; A. Young proposes; W Pitt invents; Early English patents; American; recent inventions; one and two wheels; number of patents; number of made; capital • Reaumur's porcelain • Reed & Bowen Punch • Reed instruments • Reeves, counterfeits Collins Co. mark • Regalia, trade in • Regnault • Reid, Jas. M • Rennet • Resins • Revolvers, Forehand & Wadsworth's • Rice beer • Richards, G & Co, cord making • Richmond flour • Rickman, Isack • Ridley & Co.'s confectionery • Rifle, Allen, breech loading • Rimbault on pianoforte • River driving (lumber) • Riverside Works, Seekonk • Robbers of expresses • Robert, L, paper machine • Roberts, mule of • Rockets • Rodman gun • Rogers, Wm. D, notice of • Rogers, Wm. D & Co, carriage-builders; no " cheap work" • Rolled sheet brass • Rolling machinery • Rolling and slitting mills, first • Romans, printing by • Rome, fires in • Ropes • Rosecrans, Gen, on narrow gauge • Rosin ; fires on beds; for gas • Rotary pumps; of Fales, Jenks & Sons • Roughing rolls • Roxbury, watch factory • Ruffle and Tape trimming machine • Rules; extent of manufacture in US; Stephens & Co.'s works; making; Stephens patent combination; Stephens caliper • Rumford Chemical Works; establishment • Rumford, Count • Rumford medals • Rumsey, J, invention of boat; steamboat • Rupert, Prince • Russell Manuf. Co; styles of goods; works • Russia, bells

Sable, fur • Safes and safety locks • Safes, early (strong boxes); fire-proof, first; of Hall Safe and Lock Co • St. Paul, fur trade • Salmon, scarcity • Salmon's platform scales • Salmon's reaper • Salt, manufacture: deposits • Sandals, wearing • Sandarach • Sanford, E S • Sapolio; H W Beecher recommends • Sargent Card Clothing Co • Sargent, J D, and card making • Savery, Thomas • Savings banks, postal • Sawdust, for packing ice; imitation carvings • Saw-mills; first; mobs against ; steam; for lumber • Saws; Disston's patent gullet-toothed circular; old mode of using, how made • Scale in boilers • Scales; history; platform; importance • Schermerhorn, J W & Co • Schoeffer, P • Schools, apparatus; old and modern • School-books, number and cost • School furniture • School house, old; modern • Schroter, C G • Schwartz, Berthold • Scovill Manuf. Co; works of • Screws • Screws, defined; patents fbr making; improvements in form,; New England • Screw Co; gimlet-pointed; Pratt's improvement • Screw-wrenches; Merrick patent; Coes patents; Richard patent • Scythes, made; Snaths • Sea otter, fur • Seekonk, Seekonk Plains • Senefeldter, A • Sevres china • Sewing machine, twist • Sewing machines • Sewing machine, Wilson's • Sewing-silk and machine twist • Shafting, machine • Shakers, brooms • Shawls, American • Sheathing for ships • Sheep, Kitzherberton • Sheet-iron, making; thin • Sheffield cutlery • Shingles • Ship-building, in American colonies • Ship-building, depressed in US • Ships, ancient; American models; details of framing; armored; launching; iron • Ship-yard, Jackson & Sharp's • Shoemaker, S M • Shoes, fashions • Shoes, Ladies • Shot • Shot making • Shot-gun, Allen's breech-loading • Shot tower, invented; Paul Becks' • Shot tower • Shreve, H M, steamboat captain • Sibley's Photographic Press • Sihley, Rupert, and his inventions • Sickle • Siegen, L von • Signs, lithographed • Silk, American, uses Italian trade marks • Silk, culture; introduced in US: disease; early use; early cultivation; raised in Europe and America; in US; morus imilticaulis • Silk dress goods • Silk hats • Silver mining: in US, before 1860; prospecting; yield in Nevada; ores; modes of extraction; veins in Western States; Colorado ores, refractory • Silver plating, Martin's process • Slate • Slater, S, and Mrs • Sleep and beds • Sloops, packet • Slop-shops • Slotting machine • Smelting copper • Smith, F O J • Smith, Capt. John • Smith, William; refused to hold slaves; business operations • Smith, plow • Smoking • Snuff, in China • Soap; in Bible; ancient use; extent of business; Enoch Morgan's Son's factory; process of making: kinds; materials • Solingen • Sorghum • South Carolina RR, first in US • Sphere, used for transportation • Spiders, first hinge makers • Spinet • Spinney, B F • Spinney, B F & Co; their manufactory; their specialties • Spinney, G N • Spinning-jenny • Spinning thread • Spinning-wheel • Spirits of turpentine, qualities • Spirituous liquors • Spool-cotton thread • Spoon wheel • Spooner, C E • Sprague, W. P, carpet factory • Spray nozzle for fires • Springs carriage • Spur-gear, heaviest in world • Stable furniture, iron • Stamping mill for gold • Starch; uses; grain; making • Statistics of population • Statuary, bronze; iron • Steam, strain engine • Steam, how generated, saturated: heat in making; national importance; used in calliope; in paper making: in saw mills • Steam, latent improvements in using • Steam boiler, Babcock & Wilcox's • Steam boiler explosions; singular cause • Steam boilers, purifying water • Steam engine, invented; early inventors; single and double acting; first high pressure: Corliss' improvements; Babcock & Wilcox's; indicator diagrams • Steam fire engines • Steam Fire Engines; competitive trial in 1858; Button engine works • Steam hammer, in axe making • Steam jacket • Steam navigation • Steam plough • Steam type-setting machines • Steamboats, early inventions; first in the West; first Ocean • Steel; and iron, difference; early manufacture; oriental make; first made in England; process of making; cast and bar; wrought or shear; tests; patents for making; Bessemer; Eaton's; importance of cheap; ancient; making; bells • Steel and copper engraving • Steel engraving • Steel pens, manufacture; American • Stencil Plates • Stephens, DeLoss H; inventions • Stephens & Co, rule works • Stephens, caliper rule • Stephens, patent combination rule • Stereotyping and electrotyping • Stereotyping, paper process • Stevens, John L; battery; bombshell • Stiles. President; and silk culture • Stilwell & Bierce Manuf. Co • Stilwell's heater and lime catcher • Stippling • Stock (of companies), watering of • Stocking frames • Stockings, early • Stockings, manuf. in US • Stoddard, I. C, invents calliope • Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages • Stoves, American improvements • Stoves and ranges • Stowell, A • Strass • Straw bonnets • Straw carpets • Straw hats • Strike, in collar business • Stub-and-twist, American • Subscription books • Sugar beet • Sugar maple • Sugar, healthful; history • Sugar refining • Sun-dial • Superior, Lake, copper • Supermaturation by Alden process • Superphosphate of lime • Surgery, ancient • Surgery, modern • Suspended wheels • Swedging knife-blades • Swift & Courtney & Beecher Co • Swift, Wm. H• Sword, business; blades, Solingen; Damascus; Gen. Anoesoffs • Symington's steamboat • Syracuse salt works

Tabernacle (Moses), curtains: embroidery • Table cutlery • Tacks and nails • Talbot, F, and Talbotype • Tapestry; Bayeux • Tar • Tariff, The; by Horace Greeley • Tariff and hat business • Tatnall, Edward • Teazles, Teazling • Telegraph, magnetic; defined; moral influences • Temperance reform • Tempering axes, files; saws, steel • Terra alba • Terry, Eli, and clocks • Thalberg on pianoforte • Theatrical goods • Thevart, A • Thread, cotton • Thread machinery • Thread, history; first cotton • Thurn and Taxis, post monopoly • Tide wheels • Tileston, master • Tilting of steel • Time, early modes of marking • Tire setter, West's • Tobacco, manuf.: raising; extent of use: effects; Virginia • Tonti, Tontines • Tools, agricultural • Torpedoes, in naval war • Torpedoes (candy) • Torre, pyrotechnist • Torricelli • Tortoise-shell, gathering; uses; jewelry • Trade-mark counterfeited • Tram-ways • Transfer process in engraving • Transportation, Brisbane's method; previous devices • Travelling, early by water • Treasury, public; ancient • Trimmings (narrow textile fabrics) • Trip hammer, for cutlery • Tryon, I, comb patent • Tucker, W. E . and porcelain • Tudor F, and ice trade • Turbine Wheels • Turning iron. Wood, Light & Co.'s lathe • Turpentine; gathering; distilling • Twist, silk, for machines • Type-setting machines • Type, Wood

Undershot wheels • Union Artificial Limb Co • United States, history of industry; influence; silk culture; calico-printing; white-lead manufacture; first heavy scales, copper mines; coal; bank-note engraving, illustrations of growth; railroads; mint at Philadelphia; Treasury and National Bank notes

Vail, Alfred, as an inventor; biography • Valves in Babcock & Wilcox engine • Vaudenkerchove, Mr, and the Corliss engine • Varnish and its manufacture; derivation of word, antiquity: nature and constituents; classified; modes of preparing; fixed oil kind; list of kinds; Berry Bros, works • Vegetables, Alden process • Veneering, process • Venice, banking; glass making • Violins, Hamlin's • Virginia, early iron mining; glass making; industrial history; silk culture; tobacco • Voicing reeds

Wages, before and since the war; legal • Wall paper • Warming houses by hot water • Warren patent shaping machine • Washington on protection • Washington Territory, lumber • Watches, watch making • Water, purifying for steam boilers; hard • Water-clock • Water pipes, iron; other materials • Water power; cheapness; at Hadley, extent • Water wheels • Waterbury brass manufacture • Watt, James; iron beams • Watts, Mr, invented shot tower • Weaving • Weaving of oil cloth • Webster, Daniel, plow • Wedgwood, Josiah • Weed sewing machine • Weissenborn, E.; inventions • Welding cast iron • Wells, Darius, and wood type • Wells, Garden and Sophia, bonnets • Well, H A, improvement in hats • Wells, Henry, and express • West, early steamboats • Western Un. Telegraph Co • West's American Tire-setter • West, Jonathan B • Whatman, James • Wheat, composition; California and Oregon; handling the crop; inspection; transportation; grinding • Wheels, antiquity; care in making • Whisky • White Lead and paints • White Lead, making; adulterated • White oxide of zinc • Whiting, Riley, and clocks • Whiting Taper Co • Whitneys cotton gin • Whitteuiorc, A • Wiard guns • Wilder safes • Wilkinsou J, nail making • Williams, cheese-factory • Williamson, Peregrine • Willimautic Linen Company, : mills • Wilson, G F; farm at Seekonk • Wilson Sewing Machine Co • Winans Locomotive Works • Window glass in England • Wine: quality of pure; made in US • Wire, antiquity; uses; process • Wire-drawing • Wire ropes • Witherell, Ivers L • Wood, native, for furniture,, paper hangings • Wood Type; manufacture; materials used; machines for cutting • Wood, Jethro, plow • Wood, Robert, account • Wood. Robert & Co; bronze work; works • Wood, Light & Co.'s machine works; pattents controlled • Wood engraving • Woodhouse, Miss, and straw bonnets • Wood-rangers (coureurs des bois) • Wool, classes (felting, combing, and hairy); sorting; dyeing; manufacturing • Woolen, E B Bigelow's patents for weaving; skill required in working • Woolen manufactures • Wootz (Indian steel) • Worcester Co, Mass, and card making; fire-arm; machine works • Worcester, Marquis of • Working-women's Union • Worsted • Woven goods (narrow textile fabrics) • Woven Wire Mattress Co • Wrenches; Coes' wrench • Wright, Mrs, early silk making by • Writing, development • Writing paper • Wyatt, John • Xylophotography

Yacht America • Yale, L, and L Jr, locks • Young, A, on reaper

Zinc, white oxide; making brass; lead uses • Zincography

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