Excerpt from Report on the Twenty-Sixth Exhibition of American Manufactures, Held in the City of Philadelphia, From October 15, to November 13, 1858, by the Franklin Institute, of the State of Pennsylvania, for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts: Together With a Catalogue of the Articles Deposited Previous to October 15, 1858 Visiters will, by looking on the number on the card attached to the article exhibited, find it in this Catalogue by its corre sponding number. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.