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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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ate, andmechanical fairs in all parts of the country, and the Worlds Expositionshere and in Europe, have been steadily frequented by the companies; andtheir strifes and competitive displays have now, for twenty years, formed thesteady reliance of managers for one of the attractions of these bazaars ofagriculture and industry. Some of the companies are able to show almost abasketful of bronze, silver, and gold medals won at the different fairs of thisand other countries. The worlds fairs have been an important means of bringing the machinesto the attention of people abroad. The fruit of the displays at those fairs isWorlds seen in the large export trade enjoyed by the companies. Thefairs. number of machines sent out annually now amounts to from 40,000 to 55,000, the custom-house valuation ranging from $1,600,000 to$2,400,000 annually. They go to England, France, and Germany principally.England distributes them to all the world. Many machines now go direct toSouth America and Australia.
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WARDWELL SEWING-MACHINE. OF THE UNITED STATES. FIRE-ARMS. It is one of the peculiar phenomena of American life that the manufactureof weapons should reach such a remarkable proficiency in a country whichabhors war and armies ; which is impatient if the government keeps Progress inmore than twenty thousand men under arms in times of peace; fire-arms,which once let the standing army run down to eighty-six men; which neverbelieves there is going to be a war, and never prepares for one until it comes;and whose ordinary current expenditures for all military purposes do notexceed thirty-five million dollars in any one year. It would be natural to lookfor the highest development in this line in Europe. Several countries therespend a hundred million dollars annually for army purposes. The best mechani-cal talent in the army and in the private workshops is kept constantly employeddevising new and destructive weapons. The rewards to the successful privateinventor are great; for he is certain of

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