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MEMOIRS

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
polish and humanize mankind, than mere speculative science, however refined and sublime
it may be."

NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED BY ALEXANDER V. BLAKE,
No. 54 Gold, corner of Fulton-street.

STEREOTYPED BY R. C. VALENTINE, 45 GOLD-STREET.

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