The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-12-14
AGENTS WANTED.
A Colossal Work Completed.
KNIGHTS
Mechanical Dictionary.
PUBLISHED BY
HURD & HOUGHTON,l AsroR PLACE N Y
HI HOUi HTON & &COuPANY. Boston
THE RIFERSIDE PRESS, Cam bridge.
PUBLISHED BY

PUBLISHED BY
HURD & HoUGHTON,l3 AsroR PLACE. NY.
H.O. HOUi HTON & COMPANY Boston
TIE RIVERSIDE PRESS, Cambridge.
From the Scientific Americana
The completion Of Knights American
annals of literature n this country, as II
marks the substantial completion OF a great
which has extended over period OF eight
wears. IL is difficult to realize how colossal
is the task involved in the preparation OF a
work of this description. Tnousands OF pai'
gested, industrial processes OF every nature
have been examined and the latest prove
ments therein noted. Eneineering works,
scIantifc discoveries, and tools OF eyery craft
have been studied; and finally, all this Inn
mense collection, gathered from the whole
neid Of applied science, has been subjected
to careful revision and condensation. and by
means Of ingeniously contrived systems oil
indexing rendered invaluable for purposes
OF reference and research. Add to this the
laDors of artist and engraver. and there is
little food for marvel that the work has cost
500 900: that II treats of 200 subjects; con-
tsins 400 engrsvings; and that It's three vol
cyclopoedia than a dictionary; il is. in fact,a
mechanical and scientific library, carried up
TO the lateet dates. A just estimate of the
importance to inventor, engineers. and ar
tisans of every class and In all libraries, can
only be gained by careful examination ofthe
voIumes themselves.
The scope ofthis work concerpsAg gricultural
Machinery, Wood, Metal Glass, Stone. Clay,
Cement, and Leather Working; Mining. Hy
draulic, Railway, Marine. and Military En-
gineering; Working in Cotton. Wool, Silk.
Flax, Hemp, and Paper; Steam. Air. and
Heating, Drying and Ventilating; Fine Arts;
Photographic, Electric, Telegraphic, Optical,
| Neurological. Calculating, urgical, and Den
| tai Instruments, etc.
| Itsvalue even IL there were in print others
OF q similar nature, would be very great on
| account of It's scope. its great number OF IL
| lustrations. and the trustworthiness oil It's
| author; but at present It's value Is enhanced
/ by the fact that IL has. properly speaking, no
| com petitor. There Is published no BOOK OF
| similer intent which is at once so large, SO
| well Illustrated, so closely brought down 10
the present time, and so full ofillustrations.
Dentists, surgeons, philosophers. chemists.
engineers mechanics and scientific men and
| students ofevery grade, viii md here des-
| cribed and illustrated more OF the instru-
| ments and machines peculiar TO their pro-
i fession than can be found In well Furnished
4 stores and manufactures and they viii also
1 fnd a constant supplementary course OF In
i struction so arranged as TO be available for
Instant references. The work consists OF three
handsome octave volumes and Will De found
an Invaluable book OF referance In the lam
ily. the counting-room. and the workshop.
No better educational work could De placed
before children, adapted as IL Is TO awaken a
latent taste which may have an important
bearing on their life career.
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