The Book of Illustrious Mechanics: Of Europe and America (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Book of Illustrious Mechanics: Of Europe and America

I have thought it a great and honourable task, to write the history Of the mechanic, the humble and modest annals of the working-man, who has devoted all his faculties to manual labour and I think this task will be appreciated by all, because it is great; understood by all, because it is honourable.

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