The marvelous modern craft of bookmaking in print shops
The article surveys modern book production from manuscript to bound volume, highlighting type setting with machines, electrotype plates, folding machines, sewing by crescent needles, and final cover binding. It notes efficiency gains and the promise of turning manuscripts into books within 24 hours.
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Electrotype
Rune
Ambassadorial Anecdotes From London Diplomats
A survey of prominent foreign ministers in London highlights Baron Hayashi of Japan who helped avert war, Whitelaw Reid the American envoy and former journalist, M Cambon of France famed for language skill, Marquis de Soveral of Portugal, Count Lalaing of Belgium, Count Mensdorff of Austria and Count Metternich of Germany.
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Germany
Harrison
United States
France
Elizabeth Mills
London
Gladstone
M. Paul Cambon
Sophocles
Tennyson
Cambon
Bosphorus
Whitelaw Reid
King Edwards
Albert Gate
Thomas Cubitt
Gibraltar
Malta
M. Cambon
Marquis ¢ Several
Portugal
Blue Monkey
Marquis
Marqulis de Soveral
de Several
White Tower
England
Count Lalaing
Rio de Janeiro
Waterloo
Evers
Brussels
Count Mensdorff
Austria
Count Metternich
Kingdom of Rhine
World’s Highest Tunnel Under Construction on Jungfrau
The Erie Railway tunnel to reach Jungfrau summit has run for over ten years. It starts more than a mile above sea level and sits a mile higher at the face, with slow progress due to hard rock. Water incursions are not a major issue unlike the Simplon tunnel.
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Jungfrau
Simplon
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