The Commercial Dictionary Of Trade Products PDF Download

Excerpt from The Dictionary of Trade Products: Manufacturing and Technical Terms, Moneys, Weights, and Measures of All Countries Cheap works of ready reference are a necessity of the present day, and this one I have endeavoured to make as complete as possible. My long career as a journalist and author of sixty years' experience has afforded me many facilities for acquiring special knowledge on Commerce and Finance. Few, perhaps, have contributed so largely to technical literature and popular encyclopaedias as I have done, and this, added to an official connection with all the great International Exhibitions which have been held during the last forty years, combined with important official Museum duties, has given me many advantages. That this work has proved useful is evident from the large sale it has had, and its extensive employment in adding new words to the great Dictionaries of America and Europe. The vast expansion of Commerce, and the introduction of new pro ducts and trades since the work was first published, have, however, rendered additions necessary. Without interfering with the body of the work, I have thought that an Appendix would bring it up to date, by supplementing the few statistics introduced, correcting the fluctuating exchange value of coins in circulation, such as rupees, dollars, taels. 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.