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Le Creusot ironworks (1836)
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1836 — The Schneider brothers buy the ironworks at Le Creusot in Burgundy and make it France’s great engineering centre, building rails, locomotives, steamships and, later, guns for the French army and for export.
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- Industrial Revolution in Europe (chapter 7 of Industrial Revolution)
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- The Industrial Revolution, 1750–1914
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