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DocRefNoCR3097/363
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TitlePage from a publication showing lithographs of the processes involved in the manufacture of copper and brass items.
Date1875
Description[Additional page has been added to the collection by an archivist giving an explanation of some of the processes depicted]
Three of the processes described are related to pin manufacture and further details of pin making can be found in the first chapter of Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" [not available at this office]. All the processes described and shown in this document were replaced by machinery by 1840.
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