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X. MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES OF SWEDEN.
the . firm, and highly prized for their handiness and solidity, may also
be mentioned. The instrument-maker to the Royal Academy of Sciences,
P. M. Sörensen, in Stockholm, has manufactured a number of exceedingly
fine scientific instruments, among which may specially be remarked A. G.
TheorelVs meteorograph, which registers temperature, barometric
condition, and velocity and direction of the wind, by means of an
automatic pressure apparatus, giving the result, not by curves, but with
ordinary figure types. The apparatus, which is one of the most marvelous
of inventions, has come into use in several countries; but, on account of
the considerable expense involved in its manufacture, its coming into
wider use is impeded. — The total number of factories employed in the
manufacture of scientific instruments amounted to 16 in 1900, employing
146 hands, and with a value of production of 357,000 kronor.
For the manufacture of watches Sweden possesses the Halda
"Watch Factory, mentioned and illustrated above. In Stockholm there
are the two highly esteemed Clock manufacturers G. W. Linderoth and
F. W. Tornberg. Including factories for manufacturing parts of watches
and clocks, Sweden has 7 watch- and clock-factories, employing 166
hands, and with a value of production amounting to 318,000 kronor.
The import and export of watches and clocks, and parts of them is
shown in Tables 127 and 128, pages 868 and 869. — "While mentioning
watch- and clock-manufacture, it may be stated in conclusion that the
very highly esteemed chronometer manufacturer in London, V. KuUberg,
is a Swede.
11. OTHER INDUSTRIES.
Of the industries comprehended in the official factory statistics
under this heading (embracing, in 1900, a total of 421 factories with
7,757 labourers and a production value of 17,900,000 kronor), the greater
part is of insignificant extent. Included are, however, establishments
for electric lighting as well as the graphic industry, which deserve &
special treatment.
"We take this opportunity to give a general survey of the electric
in-dustry — in our days of such an interest and of so great an importance,
especially for Sweden — though in most of its parts already dealt with
under different headings in the preceding.
The Electric Industry.
The electric industry has in Sweden, as in the great industrial
countries, during later years undergone an immense development, inasmuch as
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