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The Shaping of the Industrial System

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The chapter presents the formation of the Romanian industrial system starting with the nineteenth century until the end of the First World War. The historical context of the development of the Romanian industrial environment is mentioned, the politicians who influenced this development as well as the industrial policies from the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century. The development of the industrial environment is exemplified with numerous statistical data for different industries.

Victor Axinciuc—Deceased.

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    The installed capacity and the driving force production, expressed in horsepower in the statistics of the time, were transformed into kW according to the known ratio 1 HP = 0.736 W (Ghiorghita, 1998).

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    The data according to the first official statistics regarding companies: the Statistics of Joint-Stock Companies in Romania, Ghiorghita (1998).

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Axinciuc, V., Banabic, D. (2024). The Shaping of the Industrial System. In: Banabic, D. (eds) History of Romanian Technology and Industry. History of Mechanism and Machine Science, vol 44. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39393-8_7

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