Transcriber’s Notes
Inconsistencies in spelling, hyphenation, etc. (including in proper names) have been retained, except as mentioned below.
Depending on the hard- and software and their settings used to read this text, not all elements may display as intended.
As explained in the [Preface], the book contains both endnotes per chapter and footnotes. This distinction has been kept in this text, with the endnotes being numbered E1, E2, E3, ... and the footnotes having numbers 1, 2, 3, ....
Text in a dotted box has been transcribed from the illustration for the sake of legibility and completeness.
Page 85, “Machine-made tools were unknown ...: either the closing quote mark is missing, or the opening quote mark was included erroneously.
Page 169: there is a footnote marker * on this page, but no footnote.
Page 179, paragraph starting When labor was only another name ... and related foot- and endotes: several quote marks appear to be lacking.
Page 180, Footnote 36: there probably should have been a closing quote mark after ... exercises of humanity.
Page 327, Endnote [E31]: there is no marker in the text for this note.
Page 400, Minnesota, Minn.: as printed in the source document; probably an error for Minneapolis, Minn.
Page 464, Zenophon: the text consistently uses Xenophon.
Changes:
Illustrations and footnotes have been moved out of text paragraphs.
Some obvious minor typographical and punctuation errors have been corrected silently.
Table of Contents: Several page numbers have been corrected to the book’s actual page numbers.
Page 6, Endnote 1: closing quote mark inserted after ... principles of scientific education.
Page 13: closing quote mark inserted after ... be learned by doing them.
Page 58: ... accessaries, as anvils, ... changed to ... accessories, as anvils, ....
Page 77, Endnote 2: opening quote mark inserted before The inquiry of truth ....
Page 171: Maudslay, Clement Murray, Nasmyth changed to Maudslay, Clement, Murray, Nasmyth.
Page 194: Opening quote mark inserted before Applying our popular schemes ....
Page 257: Endnote marker numbering [E1] corrected to [E11] to conform to endnotes for this chapter.
Page 392, footnote [125]: Of the 51 cities tabulated ... changed to Of the 54 cities tabulated ....
Page 432: Chicago Manual Training School, equipment of: 341 changed to 347.