Author: Henry Melchior Muhlenberg Richards

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-29

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 9780265927632

Excerpt from The American Iron and Steel Manufacturing Company, Lebanon's Great Iron Works: Read Before the Lebanon County Historical Society, April 20, 1916 The original crude square iron, in time, was replaced by round bars of uniform and perfect shape; the swaging block gave place to the rolling mill with its trains; automatic ma chinery has largely done the work formerly required of the' human machine and human muscles; oil and coal dust now. Supply heat, and the dense smoke from great stacks is no longer an indication of business actiiity; electricity has sup planted the steam engine, and the great buildings of_ great corporations now occupy the space where humble little shops in the past turned out, in their feeble way, more goods than a doubting world was willing to consume, and at a price which it would now be impossible to obtain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.