- Thomas Register
The "Thomas Register of American Manufacturers", known as the "big green books" and "Thomas Registry", is a multi-volume directory of industrial product information covering 650,000
distributors ,manufacturers and service companies within 67,000-plus industrial categories. It was first published in1898 by Harvey Mark Thomas as "Hardware and Kindred Trades". Thomas Publishing Company, LLC ofNew York City has beenprivately-held since its inception. Thomas has moved its databaseonline as [http://www.ThomasNet.com ThomasNet] , published and maintained by Thomas Industrial Network, one of Thomas’ five business units. ThomasNet has expanded to provide not only product and company information, butOnline catalog s,computer-aided design (CAD ) drawings,news ,press releases , forums andblogs .In April
2006 theNew York Public Library named ThomasNet.com as one of their [http://www.nypl.org/branch/books/index2.cfm?ListID=300 25 Best of Reference] sources for thereference librarian .External links
* [http://www.ThomasNet.com ThomasNet]
* [http://www.thomasnet.com/toolbarv2/Info_default.html ThomasNet Toolbar]
* [http://www.ThomasPublishing.com Thomas Publishing corporate website]
* [http://www.ThomasGlobal.com Thomas Global]
* [http://news.thomasnet.com Thomas' Industrial Newsroom]
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