THE INDUSTRIAL TITAN OF AMERICA 



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both New York and 

 Illinois in that partic- 

 ular. This versatile 

 geographic Titan 

 forges the heaviest 

 castings civilization 

 has ever undertaken 

 to make and the most 

 delicate micrometers 

 that science demands 

 for traversing the 

 realms beyond the 

 millionth of an inch. 



With equal success 

 it fabricates tremen- 

 dous testing machines 

 that squeeze metals to 

 the tune of millions of 

 pounds, and makes 

 watches whose bal- 

 ance-wheels measure 

 time down to the hun- 

 dred-thousandth part 

 of a second, and chro- 

 nometers that do, 

 mayhap, even ten 

 times better than that. 



Wide-ranged, yet 

 concentrated, famous 

 for its heavy manu- 

 factures, distinguished 

 for its light ones, de- 

 manding the most 

 powerful forges in the 

 world, requiring the 

 most delicate turning 

 machines, producing 

 raw iron which for- 

 merly could be bought 

 for less than a cent a 

 pound, and finished 

 steel worth, in some 

 cases, hundreds o f 

 dollars an ounce, 

 Pennsylvania commands admiration for 

 her manufacturing industries and com- 

 pels attention for her position in the com- 

 mercial world. 



Some one has observed that Pennsyl- 

 vania bridges span most of the rivers of 

 the earth, and that Pennsylvania locomo- 

 tives run over Pennsylvania rails in the 

 Occident and Orient alike, across Arctic 

 wastes and through tropical jungles, 

 through the heart of civilization and 

 on the border of savage-land. The clatter 



© A. Lloyd Lewis 



THE) FIRST UNITED STATES MINT : PHILADELPHIA 



The first production of this mint was the copper cent of 1793, fol- 

 lowed the next year by silver dollars, and in 1795 by gold eagles. In 

 addition to its modern coinage establishment in Philadelphia, the 

 United States now has mints in operation in San Francisco and Den- 

 ver. The nation's paper money is made in Washington. 



of the iron pig of Pennsylvania is 

 heard throughout the world, along with 

 the squeal of the edible porker of Illi- 

 nois. 



The State makes nearly half of the 

 country's cotton lace, more than a third 

 of its carpets and rugs, more than a third 

 of its chocolates and cocoa, nearly half 

 of its felt hats, and more than a third of 

 its silk. It produces more asbestos manu- 

 factures than all the rest of the country, 

 and more bluing, ice cream, hammocks, 



