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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
The establishment of the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers in Paris in 1799, following a conception for a museum of science and industry outlined by Descartes a century and a half earlier, was the beginning of a type of institution which has great significance to business history. Many industrial museums have since been established. Some have grown to vast exhibitions of industrial machines and processes, such as the Science Museum in London, the Deutsches Museum in Munich, the Technical Museum in Vienna, and the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. In America and in Europe many smaller museums have also been established to illustrate some particular aspects of industrial development. Among the outstanding ones in America are the Edison Museum, established by Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan, the Industrial Museum of the American Steel and Wire Co. at Worcester, Massachusetts, and the John Woodman Higgins Armory, of the Worcester Pressed Steel Co.
page 49 note 1 Mr. Higgins, who has a close familiarity with the history of the steel industry and particularly with armor, has generously given invaluable help in the writing of this article and has contributed the illustrations.
page 50 note 1 Ffoulkes, Charles, The Armourer and His Craft (London, 1912), p. 1Google Scholar.
page 52 note 1 Agricola, Georg, De Res Metallica (translated by Hoover, Herbert C. and Hoover, Lou Henry, London, 1912), pp. 423–425.Google Scholar Practically the whole book, according to the Hoovers, was written from observation; it was published in 1555.
page 55 note 1 This armor, except for infantry helmets and trench breastplates, is mounted on gun carriages and on battleships—a battleship is a suit of armor for 1,400 men.
page 60 note 1 Later incorporated with the armorers' gild, which still exists under a charter granted in 1708 to the Company of Armourers and Brasiers in the City of London.
page 60 note 2 Ffoulkes, op. cit., p. 24.
page 61 note 1 Boheim, Wendelin, Meister der Waffenschmiedekunst vom XIV. bis ins XVIII. Jahrhundert (Berlin, 1897)Google Scholar.
page 61 note 2 If this was the Venetian ducat, it was worth slightly less than the $2.50 gold piece of the United States.
page 62 note 1 If this was the German silver thaler, it was the equivalent of about 71 cents in American money.
page 62 note 2 Probably the Florentine equivalent of the ducat of Venice.
page 62 note 3 A scudo was a little less than an American dollar.
