Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . ed. , then but little over twenty years of age, wasengaged by this patron to spend five years in closeinvestigation of the most advanced methods ofbleaching, dyeing, and color-printing practised inGreat Britain and the various continental countries,and afterwards to organize and superintend a largemanufactory in Bohemia, where the collated resultsof his comparative study should be put in practicaloperation. The first part of this contract
Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . ed. , then but little over twenty years of age, wasengaged by this patron to spend five years in closeinvestigation of the most advanced methods ofbleaching, dyeing, and color-printing practised inGreat Britain and the various continental countries,and afterwards to organize and superintend a largemanufactory in Bohemia, where the collated resultsof his comparative study should be put in practicaloperation. The first part of this contract was ad-mirably carried out. The most progressive dyeing and calico-printing in America, Switzer-land, France, England, and Scotland were succes-sively visited and exhaustively studied, the studentof methods often turning workman and securingdirect employment at the processes he speciallywished to investigate. But besides being a studentof technical processes he was always ardently inter-ested in politics and social science, and when hereturned to Germany he carried home not only theriper experience in technological directions which.
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