History of the Clay-Working Industry in the United States (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Ries, Heinrich

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ISBN 10: 1331984564 ISBN 13: 9781331984566

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from History of the Clay-Working Industry in the United States

Then too, the methods of mining and treatment have been simple as compared with those of the metals, so that they have attracted but little attention in the technical literature in this country.

Added to this is the fact that journals devoted to the Clay indus try are of comparatively recent establishment and the only Ceramic Society of the United States in which matters of technical interest are discussed, is but 11 years old. The State Geological Surveys, though in many cases organized at an early date, gave but pass ing mention to their plastic resources, and the first report, the classic work of Dr. Cook of New Jersey, did not appear until 1878.

This was followed after an interval by the appearance of Clay reports in many other States, New York, Ohio, and Missouri being among the earliest, followed later by a number of others. But nearly every one of these reports was devoted primarily and mainly to a consideration of the properties and occurrence of the raw materials, and the status of the industry at the time it was prepared. Few of them made any reference to the past history of the ceramic art in their respective States.

It will, therefore, be easily seen that all of these factors combined have made the recorded history of the clay-working industry in the United States a somewhat imperfect one. Nor is this all. The earlier writers, and indeed, unfortunately, some of the later ones, have been careless in their choice of descriptive terms, so that difficulty is sometimes encountered in telling the exact nature of the products referred to.

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The materials for this work were collected for the Department of Economics and Sociology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington for use in a projected series of "Contributions to the Economic History of the United States." This advance publication is by the permission of the late Carroll D. Wright (who was the Director of the Department) with the understanding that any of the data herein contained may be used in that series. Mr. Edward W.Parker, of the United States Geological Survey, a collaborator of Dr. Wright, has had the more immediate supervision of the present work and has approved the manuscript for this volume.

In the preparation of this work the authors have consulted all available magazines, private publications and government and state reports. Those which have served as sources of information are listed at the end of the work, but they do not represent more than one quarter of all the works consulted. When reference is made to these in the text, a number is given in parenthesis, corresponding to that of the reference in the list, and this number is followed by the volume or page number, the former being given in Roman numerals and the latter in Arabic figures.

The data obtained from these publications have been supplemented by inquiries addressed to the different State geologists, and a very large number of producers, as well as private individuals who it was thought might be able to supply any of the desired facts. The replies to many of these communications developed such a startling lack of knowledge of the subject in nearly all quarters that the authors venture to hope that the gathering together of what scattered information there is may prove of value.

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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.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1331984564
• ISBN 13: 9781331984566
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 308