Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The World at Work: A Day in a Shipyard
Some of you decided a little time ago that you would like to know something about the work done in various English factories, such as shoe factories, cotton mills and cloth mills. Very few of us know the method of making many of the things which we wear or are constantly using and all of us wish, or ought to wish, to increase our knowledge as much as possible.
We first visited a colliery, and later on some steel works. We did this because in all factories we should find machinery made of iron and steel, and driven by coal, or by gas made from coal. We Wished to know how the coal was obtained, and how the iron and steel for the machinery were made, before We saw a factory at work.
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