The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-09-14
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a HISTORY CONVENTION
BY EDWARD II. KNIGHT. A. III.

This book is intended to be in practical mechan
ism not only what lexicon is in language
compendium OF names. definitions descriptions.
and uscs.-but in addition Il his DRY of the Gevcl-
opment of the industrial arts. machines. and tools.
Ii is dc siz ned to enable any person knowing The
name Of an instrument Or ma, hne to fluid iHfor-
nation promptly; and is in scope and ntethOi the
first attempt of the Kind in this any other
language.
Its scope concerns Agricultural hincry
Wood. Meta, Glass. Stone, Clay, Cc.a and
her wok W,r Mining myaraaliS way
ton, Wool. Silk. Flax, Hemp, and Paper;
Steam. Air. and Gas Engines and other Motors:
Lighting Heating Dry ing and Venlilaiing; Zine
Arts: Photographic, Electric. Tclegruphc. Opt Y
HorologicNl Calculating, Surgical, and Dental In-
sirumrnis. etc.
Its nacihOd is two-fold:
Each subject is considered in its alphabetical
order
=. Each Art. Trade. or Special Manufacture has
, its owl index under which are assembled the
various terms and names of TOOLS machines. aud
processes of the trade BY consulting this index
n subject may be found by searching among
congcners when name is inperfe"tiy known or
| has temporarily slipped the memory. About 10
| coo words have been thus gathered into over $50
spec fc Iq'ictes. which themselves occur in their
| alphabetical 3@' S.
The wor}; re- Of 20 COO sui ices and is iust-
| rated with 5000 carefully pep red engravngs. 1t
would in.lced be correct to say that the iuslra-
lions will be fully $500 in humber iuasmuch as
variety of distinct forms of a machine or tool
(sometJnes as many az forty frequently as
sociated in single cut. and might had the object
been to spread them out and make show have
been enumerated separate figures
Erhe value of this work, if tn, re w, re in print
others of a similar nature, would be very great
account of its scope its great number CT ilustra-
tons. and the trustworthIness of its author; but
at present its value is enhanced by the fact that it
has properly speak nt.. competitor. There is
published no book Of similar intent which is at
once 50 large. 50 well illustrated so closely
brought dow 10 the present time, and so full Of
| Mace b
| lie and private libraries as will The lexicon and
cyClopedia. Dentists surgeons. philosophers che
mists, engineers mechanics, and scientific men
and students of ever grade, viii find here descrb
ed and llus trated more of the instruments and
machines peculiar 20 the professions than can be
found in well-ful nishei stores and manufac-
tories and they will also fnd u constant supple
ntary course of instruction so arranged rs to be
available fer instant reference.
"The magnitude of this undertaking may be
! judged from thr fact that it embraces some TWEEN
ty thousand subjects, and is illustrated by up
wards OF 1--WE thousand engravitgs mostly incor-
porated tn the text, but many full page like that
facing page 2l29, which shows siXty-eight varieties
of sewing machine st tchcs, One or two features
Of this work ale new and of gre at practical utility
Such is the general alphabetical, technical index
Of material Appliances etc, appertainiuT. say to
process like photography or manufacture like
p9per, or implements like axes, hammer. forks,
ctc. etc. There no less than one hundl ed and
fit, such indexes scattered through the three
volumes Another convenience for a d. fective
y,
which show at glance all the instruments whose
names thus terminate. Each name may tn n be
rererred TO in its proper place in the 'Diction-
ary.'"-N Y. Notion, Dec. Q, 1875.
am leased to your spe cial indexes They
are new feature. and will be very useful. Fl
A. P. BARNARD, President Of Columbia College,
| New York.
THE history OF the mechanical arts from the
earliest period Of civilization to the present time,
with FIJI and exact descriptions of the most i'm
portant machines, inventions, and processes, is
presented in this comprehensive manual."-N. Y.
Tribune, March, 49, 1875.
The work has been in active preparation for the
past eight years 1t makes three handsome octave
volumes. and will be found an invaluable boz
of reference in the family, the counting room, 4
the workshop. No better educational work CO d
be placed before children, adapted as it is to ava
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