Excerpt from Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Vol. 23: For the Year Ended November 30, 1902 In the last annual report of this bureau. The Seventeenth, in closing a comparison Of articles made in this state in 1901 with those manufactured in 1845, the statement was made that the change from the original industrial Connecticut to that of today would form an interesting and profitable study. Such a labor would Show the development of this state's manufactures and give such a thorough acquaintance with the events and do ings that have led up to the present labor conditions that it would be a profitable work for some future report of this bureau. It was in fulfillment of the above expression of last year that the industrial history has been presented in this report. That statement, perhaps better than any other, ex presses the aims, objects and methods that have predominated in the preparation of this history. 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.