Ebook: New Britain, the Center of Hardware Manufacture: Containing a Brief Review of Its Marvelous Industrial Development: With Various Illustrations of Its Factories and Portraits of the Men who Have Built Them Up

A brief history of the industry of New Britain, Connecticut. Includes details on the founding of New Britain and its establishment as a leading industrial city and the manufacturing companies that reside there. 

Histories of: P. & F. Corbin; Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co.; The Stanley Works; Landers, Frary & Clark; Stanley Rule & Level Co.; Corbin Screw Corporation; and Corbin Cabinet Lock Co.