{"id":573,"date":"2010-01-21T18:00:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T18:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notechmagazine.com\/2010\/01\/three-thousand-pages-of-19th-century-technology.html"},"modified":"2015-10-19T02:01:49","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T00:01:49","slug":"three-thousand-pages-of-19th-century-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2010\/01\/three-thousand-pages-of-19th-century-technology.html","title":{"rendered":"Three Thousand Pages of 19th Century Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left;\" href=\"http:\/\/krisdedecker.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00e0099229e888330120a7f7a039970b-pi\"><img  class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00e0099229e888330120a7f7a039970b \" alt=\"The manufacture of money\" src=\"http:\/\/krisdedecker.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00e0099229e888330120a7f7a039970b-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" \/><\/a> The &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/search.php?query=Dictionary%20of%20arts%2C%20manufactures%2C%20and%20mines%20containing%20a%20clear%20exposition%20of%20their%20principles%20and%20practice%20%281875%29%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts\">Dictionary of arts, manufactures, and mines containing a clear exposition of their principles and practice<\/a>&#8221; by Andrew Ure (and many others) is a 3,000 page illustrated encyclopedia packed with useful technical and statistical<br \/>\ninformation relating to industrial development in the nineteenth<br \/>\ncentury. <\/p>\n<p>The paper version can be yours for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.co.uk\/book\/9780415216319\/Ures-Dictionary-of-Arts-Manufactures-and-Mines\">a mere \u20ac 1,248<\/a> (or $ 1,760, including a discount), but the Internet Archive has made the entire seventh edition (published in 1875) available for free: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/dictionaryofarts01ureauoft\">Volume 1<\/a> (A-C), <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/dictionaryofarts02ureauoft\">Volume 2<\/a> (D-I), <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/dictionaryofarts03ureauoft\">Volume 3<\/a> (J-Z). Some volumes of earlier editions can be found at Google Books.<\/p>\n<p>Illustration on the left: the manufacturing of money (see &#8220;Mint&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2010\/06\/the-wonders-of-industry-louis-figuier-1873.html\">The wonders of industry<\/a> (1873-1877).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Dictionary of arts, manufactures, and mines containing a clear exposition of their principles and practice&#8221; by Andrew Ure (and many others) is a 3,000 page illustrated encyclopedia packed with useful technical and statistical information relating to industrial development in the nineteenth century. The paper version can be yours for a mere \u20ac 1,248 (or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,25,90],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2666,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/2666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}