Industrial Biography Ironworkers and Toolmakers Classic Reprint - Taschenbuch

Excerpt from Industrial Biography: Iron-Workers and Tool-Makers

The memoirs of Dud Dudley and Andrew Yar ranton are almost the only ones of the series in preparing which material assistance has been de rived from books; but these have been largely illustrated by facts contained in original documents preserved in the State Paper Office, the careful examination of which has been conducted by Mr. W. Walker Wilkins.

It will thus be observed that most Of the infor mation embodied in this volume, more especially that relating to the inventors of tools and machines, has heretofore existed only in the memories of the eminent mechanical engineers from whom it has been collected. The estimable Joshua Field has died since the date at which he communicated his recollections and in a few more years many of the facts which have been caught and are here placed on record would, probably, in the ordinary course of things, have passed into oblivion. As it is, the Author feels that there are many gaps yet to be filled up; but the field of Industrial Biography is a wide one, and is open to all who will labor in it.

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