The Manufacturer and Builder: A Practical Journal of Industrial Progress (1869-1872) (48 issues bound in 4 volumes)

 Western and Company

Engineers Manufacturers Publishing Co; Western & Company, 1869

[The Dawn of Computing and communications technology: Industrial Arts: A four year run of this rare magazine in particularly fine condition] 4 volumes containing 48 monthly issues printed 1869-1872. 35 cm.  Bound in publisher's brown cloth, with gilt lettering and decoration.  Exceptionally clean and white pages.  iv, 380; iv, 380; iv, 288, 12; [2], iv, 288, 8 pages.  Lovely illustrations, numerous ads. 

The 1869 issue has a cover article on the invention of the telephone, six years before Alexander Graham Bell's famous call to Mr. Watson. "This invention may, in its present state, have no direct practical application . . . but who can say that it does not contain the germ of a new method of working the telegraph?" (page 129). The August 1870 issue discusses "Calculating by Machinery," with an illustration of "the Swedish calculating machine at Albany, N.Y." (page 225). Lomazow 768.