Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-02-25

The work originally published under the
title of the New American Cyclopediawa $
completed in 1863, since which time the
wide circulation which it has attained in
all parts OF the United States, and the
signal developments which have taken place
in every branch of science, literature, and
art, have induced the editors and publish
ers to submit to an exact and thorough re
vision, and to issue a new edi ton entitled
the American Cyclopadia.
Within the past ten years the progress OF
discovery in every department OF know l.
edge has made new work of reference an
imperative want.
The movement of political affairs has
kept pace with the discoveries of science,
and their fruitful application to the indus
trial and useful arts and the convenience
and refinement of social life. Great wars
and consequent revolutions have occurred
involving national Ranges of peculiar mo
ment The civil war of our own country,
which was at its height when the last vol
ume of the old work appeared has happi-
Iy been ended, and new course OF COM
mercial and industrial activity has been
commenced.
Large accessions to our geographical
knowledge have been made by the indie
fatigabe explorers of Africa.
The great political revolutions of the last
decade, will the natural result of the lapse
of time. have brought Into public view a
multitude of new men, whose names are in
every ones mouth, and of whose lives ev-
cry one is curious to know the p artlculars
Great battles have been fought and impor-
tant seiges maintained, OF which the detail Is
are as yet preserved only in newspapers or
IN the tra nsien, publications of the day
but which ought now to take theirplace i'll
permanent and authentic history.
In preparing the present edition for the
press, it has accordingly been the aimsso +
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to the latest possibl. dates, and to furnis
an accurate account of The most rec ent dis
coveries in science, of every fresh produc-
,ioa in literature, and of the newest inven-
in the practical art, as well as to give a
succnt and original record of the progress
of political and historical events.
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termi nation.
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new Cyclop@dia, with the same plan and
compass as its predecessor, but with far
sreater pecuniary expenditure. and with
Snch Improvements in its compo itlon US
have been suggested by ,ouger experience
and enlarged knowledge.
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for the frs time in the present edition
have been added not for the sake Of pictor-
ial effect, but to give greater lucidity and
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history, and depict the mos tamousand re-
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and art, as we'll as the various processes Of
mechanics and manufacturers. Although
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and worthy of its high character.
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Volumes, each containing about 500 pages
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engravings. and with numerous colored
photographic maps
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