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: Edward Young & Co.

Summary

• 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.