Download or read book The Crimson and Gray, Vol. 17 written by Mary E. Wells High School and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-02-20 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Crimson and Gray, Vol. 17: November, 1933 The Spectacles business in Southbridge was started by William Beecher, a young jeweler, in 1833. The first spectacles he made were gold and silver rimmed. Mr. Beecher eventually designed machinery to make steel rimmed spectacles, turning out the first of this type made in America. In 1839 he built the first spectacles factory in Southbridge. 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.