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Steel |
- Steel production Germany 1870 - 130,000 tonnes 1910 - 13.5000 tones - 1900 - 10 German companies had annual capacity to produce 300,000+ tons of steel - Prussian railways expanded from 5,000 km in 1878 to 37,000 km in 1914 |
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Chemicals |
- By 1900 German companies such as BASF held worldwide monoply on manifacture of dyes - 1914 - Britain imported 80% of dyes mainly from Germany - 1900 BASF employed workforce of 6300 workers |
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Other industries |
-1897 - Diesel perfected oil engine - 1900 - Zeppelin launched 1st rigid airship -1907 - 107,000 Germans worked as electrical workers |
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Urbanisation |
- 1893 Hamburg 8600 people died from cholera over 10 weeks - Number of industrial workers doubled between 1882-1907 - Increase in white collar workers to 3.3 million in 1907 |
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Agriculture |
- increase in population from 56 million to 65 million increased demand for products - improvements in chemical industries provided phosphates and nitrates for fertilizer - threshing machines found in 1.5 million holdings by 1907 |
