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Title: Factory and industrial management
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Subjects: Engineering Factory management Industrial efficiency
Publisher: New York (etc.) McGraw-Hill (etc.)
Contributing Library: Engineering - University of Toronto
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presence of thepowerful waterfalls which serve to unite the great lakes Hjalmarenand Malaren that first led far-sighted men of long ago to believe thathere was the ideal location for a purely industrial town. To createthis was one of the peaceful ambitions, frustrated by incessant wars, 686 77//: liNGlNEERING MAGAZlNli. of King Charles IX (1599-1611). Then the idea slumbered for halfa century, until, in 1654, Charles X Gustavus granted to one Rein-hold Rademacher, a burgher of Riga, the first of a series of privilegeswhich, it was hoped, would bring about the foundation of a manu-facturing works for iron, steel, copper and brass, to be called KarlGustaf Town. The works, however, languished, despite Govern-ment support, and, indeed, were confiscated for debt soon after Rade-machers death; and today perhaps the most effective reminder oftheir former existence is the name Karl Gustaf used to designate theState rifle factory situated on the boundary of the seventeenth-century concession.
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TUNAFORS FACTORY, ESKILSTUNA. In 1771 Eskilstuna was founded as a free town, the charterproviding that everyone who settled within its territory should occupyhimself for a livelihood in the working of iron or other metal, enjoyexemption from the capitation tax and customs duties, and have theright of using the urban water-works for a small fee. This arrange-ment readily adapted itself to the conditions which had prevailedduring and since the time of Rademacher, and produced a peculiarmanufacturing community, consisting mainly of small householders,each owning also a forge or small workshop. Remains of this oldindustrial town are to be found in the Eskilstuna of our time, and, asa matter of fact, in modified forms, are the bases of its latter-dayprosperity. This may be said to date from the arrival, early in thenineteenth century, of Johan Teofron Munktell, an engineer from theRoyal Mint at Stockholm and a pupil of the English mechanic SamuelOwen, who had made his home in Sweden and ac

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