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Hummmmm ......... guess I shouldn't have attached the photo, as it seems that everyone is only focused on that, which is certainly interesting on many levels and probably even representative of the plant being described.

However, what I was really trying to call attention to is the technical specifications that the manufacturer was trying to promote to show the capabilities of their manufacturing plant as a means to draw potential customers. It should be especially noted that this particular brochure was produced in English, while it is also likely that it was produced in other languages as well, thus we are talking here of a corporation with international reach!

What I found particularly fascinating was that they listed their plant's specifications right down to the heating area of their boilers, which back in those days would be understood by anyone so involved, as representative of the plants overall power capacity and potential. Five steam engines with a combined output of 1560 horsepower means five BIG steam engines, needed to drive the over 3,000 machines that they reference, as well as drive the nine dynamos to create the electricity for the twenty electric motors that they seem to almost brag about, thus showing how fully modern they are at that time!

This was undoubtably a big scale business that employed thousands of workers, many of them highly skilled engineers and tradesmen, and thus would be a hallmark of a technically "civilized" society, no doubt foundational in the stability of the country and its government back in 1895.

Better living through Industry as the saying goes!!!