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NEW YORK INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION IN 1853.


Special Report of Mr. Joseph Whitworth.


Having been unavoidably prevented, as explained in the General Report of the Commission,[1] from making a report upon the Machinery exhibited in the New York Industrial Exhibition, I have drawn up in a concise form the results of observations made while visiting the principal seats of those manufactures which came within my department.

The statement thus prepared embraces a variety of subjects, somewhat miscellaneous in their character, and which do not conveniently admit of a regular classification. I have endeavoured, however, as far as possible, to overcome this difficulty, and to adopt an arrangement by which the substance of the information

  1. This arose from the incomplete state of this department of the New York Exhibition up to the time when I left the United States.