First published in 1836, this book is a pioneering work on the science and technology of mining. Written by William Hypolitus Keating, an American geologist and

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced

A look at the role of state policies in North-South economic divergence and in American industrial development leading up to the Civil War. In 1796, famed engin