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Bochum

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Westphalia, 11 m. by rail west from Dortmund. Pop. (1.905) i 18,000. It is a centre of the iron and steel industries, producing principally cast steel, cast iron, iron pipes, wire and wire ropes, and lamps, with tin and zinc works, coal-mining, factories for carpets, calcium carbide and paper-roofing, brickworks and breweries. The Bochumer Verein fur Bergbau (mining) and Gusstahl Fabrication (steel manufacture) is one of the principal trusts in this industry, founded in 1854. There are a mining and a metallurgical school.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Bochum'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​b/bochum.html. 1910.
 
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