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electric-telegraphs, submarine electric cables, great 

 engineering establishments, iron ship-building, and 

 many other important enterprises. Three out of 

 four of all the great ocean steamers, and three- 

 fourths of all the locomotives of the world were 

 constructed in this country.* By means of our 

 enterprise and capital also, the first railways, tele- 

 graphs, gas works, cotton mills, modern water works, 

 suspension bridges, water wheels, harbours, light- 

 houses, &c., &c., in nearly all parts of the world 

 were constructed ; and foreign nations have been 

 inducted into the practical methods of working our 

 great manufacturing and technical applications of 

 science. 



By means of English enterprise and skill the cities 

 of Aix-la-Chapelle, Altona, Amsterdam, Antwerp, 

 Berlin, Bordeaux, Brussels, , Cologne, Frankfort-on- 

 Maine, Ghent, Haarlem, Hanover, Lille, Rotter- 

 dam, Stolberg, Toulouse, Vienna, and others were 

 lighted with gas. We formed Water Companies or 

 Waterworks in Amsterdam, Berlin, and other cities, 

 and drained Naples. We utilized the falls of the 

 Rhone at Bellegarde, and thus obtained 10,000 

 horse-power for the use of the French manufacturers. 

 We also sent the first steam-boat to Coblentz in 

 1817, and the first to America. We laid the first 

 Atlantic cables. And as a general truth, we have 

 been foremost in invention, application, and enterprise. 



* See Nature, April 24th and May 1st, 1873, pp. 485 and 13 ; also 

 Work and Wages, by Brassey, pp. 170 and 178. 



