The northern star and freemen's advocate., 1842-04-14
IMPORTANT WORK!

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NT IMPORTANT WORK!
lNOW in the course of publication, DC
TIONARY OF ARTS, MANUFACTURES
AND MINES. Containing clear exposition
of their principles and practice. BY ANDREW
URE, NJ. D., F. R. S., NJ. C. s., NJ. A. 5. Lond.
Mem. Acad., N. S. Philad., ). PHI. Soc N
Gem. Hanoy. Multi, &c. &c. &c.
illustrated qcih one thousand tWo hundred
and forty-one Emsrarings.
This is unquestionably one of the most pop,
ular work of the kind ever published, and a
all classes of the community. The following are
the important objects which the learned author
endcavors to accomplish:
lst. To instruct the Manufacturer, Metallur-
gist and Tradesman, in the principles Of their
respective processes, SO as to render them IN re-
ality, the masters of their business: and, to
elnancipate them from state of bondage to
such as are too commonly governed by blind
prejud ce and vicious routine.
2dly. To afford Merchants, Brokers, Drysalt-
ers, Druggists, and officers of the Revenue,
characteristic descriptions of the commodities
which pass through their hands.
3dIy. BY exhibiting some of the finest devel-
opments in Chemistry and Physics, to lay open
an excellent practical school to Students of these
kindred science.
4thly. 10 teach Capitalists, who may be
desirous of placing their funds in some proGuc
tive branch of industry, to select, judiciously,
among plausible claimants.
5thly. To enable gentlemen Of the law to
become we'll acquainted with the nature of those
patent schemes which are so apt to give rise to
litigation.
6thy TO present to Legislators such clear
exposition of the staple manufactures, as may
dissuade them, from enacting laws, which OBJ
struct industry, to cherish one branch of it, t.
the injury of many otners.
And, lastly, 10 give the general reader, intent
chiefly on Intellectual CuLtiUation, views of many
of the noblest achievements of Science, in effect
ing those grand transformations of matter to
which Great Britain and the United States owe
their paramount wealth, rank, and power,
among the nations of the earth.
The latest statistics of every important OBJ
iect of Manufacture, are given from the best,
and usually, from official authority, at the end Of
each article.
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