Steam-engines constructed at Zurich have been exported even to England and to America.
It is a manufacturing town, too, with silk and cotton mills, foundries, and machine shops.  Steam-engines constructed at Zurich have been exported even to England and to America.  More than half the corn trade of Switzerland is conducted by Zurich houses, its leather fairs are well attended, and the visits of commercial travellers are more frequent than in any other town of Switzerland.