Excerpt from America's Economic Supremacy The rapidity with which the manufacture of hardware has grown in Germany may be judged from the fact that it compared with that of France m 1875 as four to three, and in 1895 as five to two. But if Germany has outstripped France, the activity of America has been even greater. In 1840 the United States had not entered the field of international competi tion; in 1897 she undersold the English in London; and her product for 1898 promises nearly to equal that of Great Britain and France combined. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.