Monday, July 20, 2015

The Boy's Book of Industrial Information

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!