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A history of American manufactures, from 1608 to 1860 exhibiting ... comprising annals of the industry of the United States in machinery, manufactures and useful arts, with a notice of the important inventions, tariffs, and the results of each decennial census By John Leander Bishop, Edwin Troxell Freedley, Edward Young

year established at Boston by Wm S Pondleton who imported artists and materials from England and produced portraits music titles and other beautiful specimens of the art with great facility and correctness 1 A large manufactory of American China or Porcelain was in successful operation at Philadelphia It was owned by William Ellis Tucker whose warehouse was at 40 North Fifth street and who was believed to be the only person who had brought the domestic manufacture of China to any considerable degree of perfection A company of English artificers this year established the same business near Pittsbunr where suitable clay was found A porcelain factory at Jersey City near New York was also said to be doing well It employed one hundred persons and $200,000 capital A glass factory of the same size was in operation there and a carpet factory making twenty five hundred yards weekly Stained glass of fine finish and design was also made in considerable quantity in the vicinity of New York Glass decanters of great beauty and solidity were made at Wellsburg Va where white flint and green glass wares within a few years rivalled the foreign The first Bell made from blistered bar steel or cast steel melted wa i manufactured this year at the works of the New York Steel Manufacturing Company in New York city under the superintendence of a gentleman from Baltimore who was said to have a patent It was equal in sound to composition bells and could be made as light as they at a cost of twenty to twenty five cents per pound The West Troy bell foundry of A Meneeley's Sons was established about this time Orders were this year received from France and England for some of the card making machines invented by Mr Whittemore of Cambridge The English machinists are said to have been unable to put them 1 This enterprise appears to havo been Mr Swett Mr Pendleton soon after left immediately successful nnd having passed and set up the first lithographic house lu through different hands was recently owned Now York and the fourth in the Union and conducted by SW Chandler A Brother while in Philadelphia the business was at 204 Washington street The second continued by CJ Childs and H Iuman lithographic establishment was the next the latter also a painter of great merit la ycar attempted at Philadelphia by Kennedy about two years Mr Lehman took the placr & Lucas Init for want of practical printers of Mr Iuman and Childs & Lehman con oon ccased and was followed near the ducted it until 1834 when P 8 Duval tamo time by the third establishment their printer succeeded Mr Childa under

A history of American manufactures, from 1608 to 1860 exhibiting ... comprising annals of the industry of the United States in machinery, manufactures and useful arts, with a notice of the important inventions, tariffs, and the results of each decennial census By John Leander Bishop, Edwin Troxell Freedley, Edward Young

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