The text is taken from my copy of FIELDS, FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS: or Industry Combined with Agriculture and Brain Work with Manual Work, Thomas Nelson & Sons, London, Edinburgh, Dublin and New York, 1912.
APPENDIX.
E.-MACHINERY IN GERMANY.
The rapid progress in the fabrication of machinery in Germany is best seen from the growth of the German exports as shown by the following table:-
| 1890. |
1895. |
1907. |
|
Machines and parts thereof
|
£2,450,000 |
£3,215,000 |
£17,482,500 |
|
Sewing-machines parts
thereof
|
315,000 |
430,000 |
1,202,500 |
Locomotives and locomobiles
|
280,000 |
420,000 |
1,820,000 |
Three years later the first of these items had already reached £25,000,000, and the export of bicycles, motorcars, and motor-buses, and parts thereof, was valued at £2,904,000.
Everyone knows that German sewing- machines, motor-bus frames, and a considerable amount of tools find their way even into this country, and that German tools are plainly recommended in English books.
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