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Waltham has been billed as ‘Birthplace of American Industrial revolution’ by Chamber of Commerce. It had, in fact, been early center with respect to Labor Movement.
Waltham is situated in county of Middlesex, Massachusetts, US. This city is being looked upon as prototype with regards to majority of nineteenth century industrial city planning.
Waltham has attained sobriquet of ‘Watch City’ owing to its linkage with watch industry. It’s basically due to Waltham Watch Company; that went on to open its unit over here in the year 1854. This company held the credit of being the 1st one to have made watches along an ‘assembly line’. A ‘gold medal’ was won in the year 1876 at Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. Around forty million clocks, instruments, and watches had been produced prior to its closing down in the year 1957.
As per US Census Bureau, area of Waltham on the whole comes out to be 35.3 sq. Km; out of which 6.69%25 consists of water.
According to census conducted in the year 2000, population was 59226.
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