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Thomas Register® The Thomas Register of American Manufacturers, known as the "big green books" and "Thomas Registry", was in its heyday, a 34-volume, 3 section buying guide offering instant sourcing information on industrial products and services, along with comprehensive specifications and detailed product information from thousands of manufacturers. First published in 1898 as a single volume by Harvey Mark Thomas as Hardware and Kindred Trades, it grew to be known as "the purchasing bible" and "the bible of industry" by industrial professionals across North America and around the world. Its 100th and final edition was published in 2006. Today, Thomas Register is the proprietary database powering the foundation of ThomasNet.com. TIME LINE 1980s - 1990s The 80s and 90s saw phenomenal growth in automation, robots and controls all powered by growth of the computer industry and the dawn of the Internet. In 1995 Thomas Register could for the first time be accessed on the Internet. By 1998, Thomas Register, the world’s most complete and most used guide to American Industry, grew to a massive 34 huge volumes — the largest edition ever published. It provided industry’s buyers with more than 60,000 pages of information and advertising from 23,000 companies... a fitting tribute on the 100th anniversary of the founding of Thomas Publishing Company in 1898.

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