Rumford Mechanics Institute, incorporated 1911, Rumford, Maine : building completed October, 1911 : building dedicated November 9, 1911

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The first meeting of the Metropolitan mechanics' institute for the promotion and encouragement of manufactures, commerce, and the mechanic and useful arts, will be opened at the City of Washington on Thursday, the 24th day of February, 1853, in

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Chicago magazine.: The West as it is.

[9]-451 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Digital Library Initiatives, 1996. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. [Making of America] This volume is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

The first exhibition of the Metropolitan mechanics' institute, for the promotion and encouragement of manufactures, commerce, and the mechanics and useful arts, will be opened at the City of Washington on Thursday, the 24th day of February, 1853

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Code of laws of the Melbourne Mechanics' Institution.

Ferguson, J.A. Australia, 3863; Electronic reproduction. Canberra, A.C.T. : National Library of Australia, 2011

‘The Yorkshire Union has grown to the most extensive educational confederation in the kingdom’: the growth and distribution of the Yorkshire Union of Mechanics' Institutes, 1838–1890

With the establishment and success of the Glasgow and London Mechanics' Institutes in 1823, the mechanics'-institute movement began to spread across the whole of Britain and by 1850 there were at least 600 such institutions. Historians have argued that many of them were short-lived and the movement as a whole made little contribution to working-class adult education. This paper provides evidence to the contrary, looking specifically at the distribution of the Yorkshire Union of Mechanics' Institutes in both the emerging industrial towns and rural communities between 1838 and 1890