Egypt’s ‘industrialization’ had only seven or eight steam engines total

Evidence

For at the peak of the Pasha’s “industrialization” schemes the country had no more than seven or eight steam engines, most of the power of the thirty-odd “industrial” establishments being supplied by the workers themselves. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1537

Categorization

• CANDY: Punchy fact undermining the myth of Egyptian industrialization.
• SEED: Article angle: the overstated ‘industrial revolution’ in early nineteenth-century Egypt.