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Title: Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries
Year: 1878
Authors: Bolles, Albert Sidney, 1846-1939
Subjects: Industries Industries
Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : The Henry Bill pub. Company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ce considered the acme of effort; but the steel arches at St.Louis have passed it; and a corner-stone has been laid for a deck bridgeat Poughkeepsie, N.Y., designed by Linville, like the one at Newport, standing190 feet above the water, with five spans of 525 feet each. But who shall saythat American builders will stop even with 525-feet trusses? or who can safelypredict that the Brooklyn Bridge is the limit of possibility in the directionof suspension-bridges? - Iron bridges of small size for general purposes are now largely manufac-tured as a regular industry in all parts of the country, except the South.There are no factories at present south of Mason and DixonsLine. That there will be in a very few years there can be little building adoubt, owing to the needs of the Southern States, and their abun- regular in-dant coal, iron, and water-power. American bridges find the dustryrailways, • of course, their principal consumers; but the purely agricultural 292 IND US TRIA L IIIS TOR Y
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regions are becoming large buyers,and many bridgesare being exportedto Canada andSouth America.The companies en-gaged in the man-ufacture are at pres-ent only twenty-three in number;the business requir-ing large capital, avast amount ofg heavy and expen-gj sive machinery, and8 the best engineering talent. S PRINTING-PRESSES. Like all other ma-chines invented toChanges in perform printing- S O 111 e press specialtask, which havehad an ancient ori-gin, and which havebecome changedand improved withthe progress of time,as civilization hasmade larger andlarger demandsupon its services,the printing-presshas passed througha world of vicissi-tudes since its ori-gin in 1455- Xtwould not be inter- esting to relate all of these. Only the leading changes of form need be noted. OF THE UNITED STATES. 293 The old press used by the first printers was merely a table, upon whichthe type forming the page to be printed was laid, being bound together bya frame and wedges into what is called a form. The ty

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