第八章 The Industrial Revolution 工业革命
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“Arcelor–Mittal”concern. ??The sole industrial centre outside the collieries and blast furnaces of Walloon was the old cloth making town of Ghent. Around 1800 a manufacturer by the name of Liévin Bauwens smuggled a spinning–jenny from England and put it into operation there. When the canal was built to Terneuzen at the mouth of the Schelde， the town was given direct access to the sea. From then on the town was generally acknowledged as the “Manchester of Flanders”. ??A boom in canal buildings resulted in a long–term improvement in transportation communications. Soon coal was being taken along the new waterways from the region around Mons and Charleroi to Northern France and f