Memoirs of the most eminent American mechanics : also, lives of distinguished European mechanics : together with a collection of anecdotes ... relating to the mechanic arts : illustrated by fifty engravings
Henry Howe's collective biography of American and European mechanics and inventors, published by Harper & Brothers in New York in 1852 for a general readership interested in the mechanic arts. The fifty-odd wood engravings are bust portraits in plain coats, high collars and stocks, drawn with coarse parallel hatching and open white backgrounds that suit cutout use, flat spot placement and high-contrast reproduction.
