Excerpt from Black's Guide to Glasgow and the Clyde This enterprise answered in an unlocked-for direction besides the great increase of already established trade, a new branch was opened, that of shipbuilding, in which Glasgow has ever since been pre-eminent, not in Britain only, but in the world. The launch by Henry Bell of the Comet of three-horse power, the first European steamboat in 1812, inaugurated the vast industry, and the record was reached in 1913 when the gigantic total of of tonnage was turned out. 1911, 1912, ...
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Excerpt from Black's Guide to Glasgow and the Clyde This enterprise answered in an unlocked-for direction besides the great increase of already established trade, a new branch was opened, that of shipbuilding, in which Glasgow has ever since been pre-eminent, not in Britain only, but in the world. The launch by Henry Bell of the Comet of three-horse power, the first European steamboat in 1812, inaugurated the vast industry, and the record was reached in 1913 when the gigantic total of of tonnage was turned out. 1911, 1912, and 1913 were boom years. It is a scene one never can forget if one comes up the river in the busy time of day, ones the westering light turns grime to gold - the activity of myriads of men creating mighty engines to traverse all parts of the world, with the clang of tens of thousands of busy hammers (see p. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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