OF THE MOST EMINENT AMERICAN MECHANICS: ALSO, LIVES OF DISTINGUISHED EUROPEAN MECHANICS; TOGETHER WITH A COLLECTION OF ANECDOTES, DESCRIPTIONS, &c. &c. RELATING TO THE MECHANIC ARTS. ILLUSTRATED BY FIFTY ENGRAVINGS BY HENRY HOWE. "The due cultivation of practical manual arts in a nation, has a greater tendency to HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, 82 CLIFF STREET, NEW YORK. 1847. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1846, by HARPER & BROTHERS, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York |