Excerpt from Manufacturing Industries in America: Fundamental Economic Factors Among men actively engaged in manufacturing there has been a growing desire to know their own business in all its aspects. Since all industries are more or less associated, an investigation of one soon leads to search into allied fields. This book is designed as an aid in such studies. 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.