The Growth of Industry-The Iron Trade.' S.B. from Manchester
IN the first of this series of talks, last week,
Mr. Cressy described the rise of the textile industry. To-day he goes on to the iron trade, which again is, in its large-scale form. a product of the nineteenth century. It was with the discovery of steam power that the manufacture of iron in enormous quantities became necessary, in order to supply machinery to all the new factories that were springing up all over England, and, from being a local industry of secondary importance, the iron trade took its place amongst the leading industries of the country.