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86 BRIDGE BUILDING.

Centered in Prague are the largest and most renowned bridge-building establishments of Austria-Hungary.

In Plzeň (Pilsen) there are famous works constructing guns and armaments for battle-ships. In Kladno near Prague large steel works produce gun barells, steel for cannons, and rank first in the manufacturing the springs for railway and motor-carriages.

ELECTROMACHINES.

The electro-machine industry is well represented in Bohemia by two large works in the vicinity of Prague. They receive orders for giant electric dynamos for centrals, for electric-trams and the lighting of cities in United Kingdom and dependencies (British India, Australia).

MOTOR-CARS

A large factory for the manufacture of bicycles and motorcars was erected lately in Bohemia; its trade-mark in motor-cycles (Slavia) is famous since the year 1905.

TEXTILE INDUSTRY.

In Austria, during the last 25 years, there has been a very great progress in the textile industry; the number of mechanical looms during this period increasing more than threefold, and the technical equipment and manufactures of those industries (cotton industry, spinning, weaving, cotton printing, woolen industry, cloth industry) are quite on a par with those of other countries.

In the year 1902 there were in Austria about 3,054.000 spindels at work, of which 1,750.000 were in Bohemia. The number of looms in Austria was in the same year about 120.000, of which about 70.000 were in Bohemia.

In the textile printing industry there were in Austria about 150 machines, of which more than half were in Bohemia.

In 1902 there were 21.837 textile factories in