Industrial Instruction on the Continent: Being the Introductory Lecture of the Session, 1852-53 is a book written by Lyon Playfair and published in 1852. The book is a lecture given by Playfair, a Scottish chemist and politician, at the Royal Institution in Manchester, England. The lecture discusses the state of industrial education on the continent of Europe, focusing on Germany, France, and Switzerland. Playfair argues that these countries have...