Any enterprise centered on the processing, assembly, production, or marketing of a line of products, services, commodities, or merchandise, in a particular field often named after its principal product. Examples include the automobile, fishing, music, publishing, insurance, and textile industries.
    

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A man and woman, semi-nude but bedecked with jewellery, accompanied by Death, are kneeling on a representation of the poor: in the background are factories with smoking chimneys. Lithograph after H. Schwaiger, ca. 1900.

Crimean War, England: receiving lint to be sent to Scutari. Wood engraving by LEA. W.

Palais de L'Industrie, Paris. Etching.

Textiles: a steam-driven baling machine for cotton. Engraving.

Official descriptive and illustrated catalogue / Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851 ; by authority of the Royal Commission.

The New Lenox malaria case / by J.F.A. Adams.

Panorama of EU industry 97 : an extensive review of the situation and outlook of the manufacturing and service industries in the European Union / European Commission.

Ernst & Young's European life sciences 99 : sixth annual report : communicating value.

The economic impact of pollution control : a summary of recent studies / prepared for the Council on Environmental Quality, Deptartment of Commerce, and Environmental Protection Agency.

Modern biotechnology activity in New Zealand / Statistics New Zealand.

Rules, orders, and premiums, of the South Devon division of the Devonshire Society, for the Encouragement of Agriculture and Industry: with a list of the subscribers to the Society

An account of the proceedings, intentions, Resolutions, and Premiums, of the Essex Society, For the Encouragement of Agriculture and Industry, instituted at Chelmsford, September 30, 1793. To which is addfd the Speech delivered by The Vice President of th

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Rules, orders, and premiums, of the South Devon division of the Devonshire Society, for the Encouragement of Agriculture and Industry: with a list of the subscribers to the Society

An account of the proceedings, intentions, Resolutions, and Premiums, of the Essex Society, For the Encouragement of Agriculture and Industry, instituted at Chelmsford, September 30, 1793. To which is addfd the Speech delivered by The Vice President of th