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Title: Bulletin - United States National Museum
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: United States National Museum Smithsonian Institution United States. Dept. of the Interior
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, (etc.) for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt Print. Off.
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st children in careers as tanners, or in other useful endeavors.-A few, like the Book of Trades., first published in America in 1807,were popular in scope, but the illustrations must have seemedlacking to anyone with a superficial knowledge of a special craft,even children -^ (see fig. 4). Others, however, were extremelyuseful and presented detailed texts that approached the level ofthe modern technical journal, if not in content, at least in tone.Thomas Martins Circle of the Mechanical Arts., published in 1813,is a good example; and his treatment of tanning as one ofthe arts connected with, or depending upon, or, at least, which 2< See also Encyclopaedia: or, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature; Rees,Cyclopedia; or. Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, and Literature; and Shaw, compil., Engineer-ing Books Available in America Prior to 1830. ^^Hazen, Panorama of Professions and Trades, vii, pp. 60-67. -^ Book of Trades, vol. 1, pp. 91-97, 223-231. lO
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Figure 4.—Tanning and Currving: The Popular Image. After 1800, many works like the Book of Trades stressed the virtues of an indus-trious life but proved of little value as technical guides to the arts and crafts. I I are materially benefited by the principles of modern Chemistry,pointed the way to an entirely new concept of an ancient craftand reflected the contemporary work ot men like Sir HumphryDavy.-^ But none that followed the encyclopedist prior to 1840 wasmore philosophical in his approach to the status of those employedin the basic industries than the writer-chemist Andrew Ure. Thepreface to his Dictio)iar\ must have been most appealing to anegalitarian United States. Here was a work intended to instructthe Manufacturer, Metallurgist, and Tradesman, in the principlesof their respective processes, so as to render them in reality themasters of their business, and to emancipate them from a stateof bondage to such as are too commonly the slaves of blind preju-dice and vicious r

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