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x. manufacturing industries of 8wedbn.
Launching of the Iron-clad the Thule at Finnboda.
apparatus), de Laval, the brothers Hult, and others have invented
machines of great value.
The most important branches of the machine-industry are the
mechanical works and the foundries. These are to a great number scattered all
over the country, especially in the coast-towns and at such places in the
country from which the communications are facilitated by means of lakes,
canals, and railways. At the choice of situation for a mechanical work
regard has also often been paid to an existing waterfall, the fertility
of the surrounding country, the proximity to larger factories such
as spinning-mills, cloth-manufactories, paper-mills, etc. Up to about
forty years ago new mechanical workshops were built principally for
the purpose of repairing and of furnishing coarser castings for
agricultural and factory-wants. To be able to give the employees regular
employ, these repairing works had before long to devote themselves to
special manufactures, which still as a rule did not consist of other things
than those used in the country and particularly in the nearest environs.
"Within the last few decades an essential change has, however, set in,
inasmuch as not only old mechanical works have been altered, but also many
new ones have been built and fitted out with the best, most suitable ma-
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