resources and manpower, with no improvements in productivity. Consequently, the economy scarcely grew from mid-century on. Additionally, the central government began investing more heavily in the Asian republics

conquered the mass market. He deliberately set out to build a cheap everyday car for farmers in the mid-west, the Ford model T. Sales rose like lightning, bringing with them revolutionary methods of production

Stockholm in 1827. Sweden introduced compulsory schooling in 1842. An export boom commenced around the mid-19th century that lasted, with interruptions, for around a hundred years. England’s expanding industries

insurance companies and banks. Therefore, Slovenia’s first surge of industrialisation starting in the mid-19th century was financed largely with capital from Trieste, for instance the TKI chemical works in

increasing technical problems in the mines and competition from South American precious metals. In the mid-16th century, Hungary became part of the Habsburg Empire, and the monarchs in Vienna used their new

profitable sugar cane plantations of their colonies, but industrialisation did not begin there until the mid-19th century or later. A direct link is therefore difficult to discern, but there too the immense influx

estate in the city centre in an optimal manner. The safety lift, developed by Elisha Graves Otis in the mid-19th century, ensured that people could be reliably transported to the top floors, because it was equipped [...] tradition. They flourished in the 19th century. In London, "Vauxhall Gardens" even existed since the mid-17th century. This was a respectable park with shaded walkways and fountains: later additions included [...] Vienna developed in a similar fashion. It was originally an imperial wild game reservation, but in the mid-18th century it was opened as a public municipal park. It was not long before it was equipped with

steam engine in St. Petersburg. On the other hand, the boom in iron production trailed off in the mid-19th century, and the government attempted to stimulate the economy by building railways. The line [...] time in Rostov on Don, production commenced in the Stalingrad (today Volgograd) tractor works in the mid-1930s, and in Gorki (today Nishni Novgorod) the automotive plant GAZ churned out cars and trucks. One

were the expanding tobacco and cork processing, and paper, ceramics and glass manufacturing. In the mid 19th century, construction of a railway network commenced: the first trains connected Lisbon and Porto

dominated by its military function as a fortress, the population density increased significantly from the mid-19th century. With the emergence of metal and food industries, wool and linen working, the city developed

adoption of the Swiss currency in 1924, Liechtenstein was integrated in the Swiss market. From the mid-1930s o, an increasing number of businesses were founded – helped by low wages and taxes. Companies

standardised serial production. This goal however, was only reached by the small arms industry in the mid-19th century. Until then, state owned manufactories made guns and pistols which looked alike, but in

up-and-down course. When textile fabrics, coal mines and iron works began appearing in Britain in the mid-18th century, the course of Hungary’s economy was being decided in Vienna. The Habsburg rulers attempted

drachma remained stable over a long period, the third period of industrial growth occurred in the mid-1960s, driven by the construction industry. The economy grew almost as fast as Japan’s, and productivity [...] hundreds of thousands of administrative jobs, played a major role here. This was supplemented from the mid-20th century by the booming tourism industry. With the exception of the large shipping lines, industrial

first long-distance rail link from Cologne through the then rural Ruhr region to Minden. From the mid-19th century, the construction of railways fuelled the rapid expansion of the coal and steel industries

HISTORY OF FINLAND Listen Finland’s rise as a prosperous industrial nation, which started in the mid-20th century, is due primarily to two very different factors: its extensive forests, which deliver [...] tenants subsisting on the bare minimum. A modest tradition of iron-working emerged as far back as the mid-17th century, when Finland still belonged to Sweden: as both labour and charcoal as fuel were available [...] an exemption from tariffs, the city of Tampere developed into a significant industrial centre. By mid-century, the cotton factory founded by Scottish entrepreneur James Finlayson alone employed around

porcelain manufactory in Tallinn. A tentative industrialisation process took shape starting in the mid-19th century, the most significant milestones being the Kreenholm textile works in Narva in 1857, whose

Berg" or "Land of Berg") called their factories ‚Cromford‘, ‚Birmingham‘ or ‚Sheffield‘. Until the mid 19th century, the named region closely followed the English model while being a pioneer itself as to

President Tito’s break with Stalin in 1948 triggered an economic blockade by the Eastern Block, by the mid-1960s industry was posting spectacular growth rates and coming to dominate Yugoslavia’s economy. C

industrialisation has crossed borders - it has never been a purely national phenomenon. From the mid-18th century, new technologies and production methods spread rapidly across Europe. Manufacturers built