Identifier: cassiersmagazi2719041newy (find matches)
Title: Cassier's magazine
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Subjects: Engineering
Publisher: New York Cassier Magazine Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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BELFAST. THE STEAM HAMMERS HERE SHOWN ARE FROM THE WORKS OF MESSRS. DAVIS & PRIMROSE, LTD., LEITH the annual American output during the same period has been augmented by only 300,000; that is to say, the British rate of increase has been more than double that of the United States. This is the more remarkable because American exports have increased during the same time at a much higher rate than British exports. The carrying trade of the Atlantic has, in fact, passed into British hands, and with it the shipbuilding: trade. zones and the most varying climes, so that the inducement to seek and exploit the resources of other lands is not so strong as in the case of Great Britain,which is practically dependent on extraneous sources for food supplies and the very necessaries of life. The question now suggests itself:—Can the British supremacy be maintained ? How far do present conditions favour the rivalry of foreign competitors ?It is, perhaps, difficult to give a decided 244 CASSIERS MAGAZINE
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THE YARD OF THE THAMES IRON WORKS SHIPBUILDING & ENGINEERING CO., LTD., CANNING TOWN. ON THE EXTREME RIGHT IS SHOWN THE JAPANESE BATTLESHIP "SHIKISHIMA" IN EARLY STAGES
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THE BRITISH MERCANTILE MARINE

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