This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...landed on the docks at Antwerp at a cost for haulage of 83 cents a ton. Such cheap transportation helps Germany to compete with England in the metal trade, and also to bring in the superior steel-making ores of Spain and Sweden. Upper Silesia being the world's largest source of zinc, Germany is able to export this ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...landed on the docks at Antwerp at a cost for haulage of 83 cents a ton. Such cheap transportation helps Germany to compete with England in the metal trade, and also to bring in the superior steel-making ores of Spain and Sweden. Upper Silesia being the world's largest source of zinc, Germany is able to export this metal. Salt is the only other mineral produced in sufficient quantities. Manufactures.--Factories, dotted all over the country, give Germany her proud position among industrial nations. The home workers are protected by high duties on foreign products; labor is highly skilled, as the workmen are carefully trained. The Germans excel in the chemical researches that are so important in cheapening and improving the processes of manufacture (page 23); they send agents to all parts of the world to find markets for their goods; they have cheap transportation. All these advantages have given them a large share of the world's trade in factory products. Iron and steel products.--Every variety of iron and steel goods is made, from a nail to the largest steam-engine. The metal industries employ more men and turn out a larger value of product than any other. The greatest iron and steel works are at Essen (Fig. 103), where the Krupp works employ over 40,000 men, and produce cast-steel, steel rails, cannon, and many other articles. The making of cutlery, machinery, and other products has been highly perfected and is carried on everywhere, particularly in Prussia, wherever coal and metal may be cheaply transported; thus Berlin is very important as a manufacturing center, besides being the political and commercial capital of Germany and one of the great money markets of the world. Germany buys no metal goods or machinery from foreign lands unless they are cheaper ...
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Add this copy of An Elementary Commercial Geography to cart. $15.00, fair condition, Sold by Blackstone Library Friends rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Blackstone, VA, UNITED STATES, published 1910 by D. Appleton and Company.
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Fair. No dust jacket. Spine has a little torn triangle area. Edges adn corners are rubbed. Lots of ink and pencil writing in book by previous owners, but interior of book is mostly clean and readable. 354 p. Includes: illustrations, maps, index. Green cloth covered boards, sewn binding. Textbook for teachers, to give a viewof the world in its relation to man as a producer and trader.
Add this copy of An Elementary Commercial Geography to cart. $19.00, very good condition, Sold by The Reading Well Bookstore rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Delaware, OH, UNITED STATES, published 1902 by D. Appleton.
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Very Good+ with no Dust Jacket. 351 pages; Signed by Not signed; Decorative cloth. There is light rubbing along the spine turns and light wear at the top and the bottom of spine. There is bumping and rubbing of the turn corners on the boards. The front hinge is very lightly cracking. Previous owner's name is inscribed on the inside front board paper and again on front end page. Back hinge is lightly cracking. There is light penciling of notes on inside back board paper. 351 pages.
Add this copy of Elementary Commercial Geography to cart. $20.00, good condition, Sold by Ken's Book Haven rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Coopersburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1907 by D. Appleton.
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