Elisha Noyce - The Boy's Book of Industrial Information (1858)
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Flax manufacture, glass painting, mining, boiler operation, distilling, bridge building - everything a young lad in the mid-19th century needed to start his industrial career. What boy doesn't want to read about drainage and artesian wells? Or proper bracing for ship construction? Well, be deprived no longer!