Identifier: industrialhistor00boll (find matches)
Title: Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Bolles, Albert Sidney, 1846-1939
Subjects: Industries Industries
Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : The Henry Bill pub. Company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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STANSBURY HAND-PRESS. OF THE UNITED STATES. the other side, andpasses on to the fly,to be delivered tothe men who carrythe papers to thefolding-room. TheHoe presses have acapacity of 18,000impressions withfolder an hour, and25,000 without thisattachment. TheCampbell press hasa capacity of 35,000,but is generally op-erated with a fold-ing-machine, whichreduces its workto 10,000 an hour.The advantage ofthis style of press isnot so much in thenumber of impres-sions per hour as inthe saving of theoriginal cost of themachine, and ex-penses of operation.A web-press is wellserved by two orthree men, while theold style of Hoepress of the samecapacity would re-quire ten or twelvemen. The United Statesis greatly interestedin the progress ofthe printing - press,because the news-paper and the bookhave now become
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298 INDUSTRIAL HISTORY essentials in the life of every intelligent person, and the cheapening of the pro-cesses of making them is of vital importance to the welfare and progress of our beloved coun-try and its inhab-itants. When this Importance cheap- of printing- eningpress can be done by the employ-ment of machinery,instead of by thecheapening of thewages of labor, theprogress made iswholesome and sat-isfactory. WIRE. The manufactureof wire is a veryancient art ■ butthe metal originallyused was almost ex-clusively either goldor silver, and malle-ability was taken ad-vantage of in the production of the wire rather than ductility. The metal was hammered outinto thin sheets, and then cut into narrow slips, or slivers, which were after-Ancient wards rounded by hammering. The fabled net of Vulcan wasmade of such wire. Fabrics were also woven of it; and a goldengarment weighing thirty-six pounds, made from wire of this sort,was found in the tomb of the wife of the Emperor Honorius when

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