🏭 Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution – Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining: Mitsubishi Giant Cantilever Crane

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The Mitsubishi Giant Cantilever Crane is an industrial structure in Nagasaki, Japan that exemplifies the technological advancement achieved during the Meiji period's rapid industrialization. Assembled in 1909 from Scottish components, it was Japan's first electric-powered cantilever crane and among the world's largest at the time. The Sites of Japan's Meiji ...