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title: "Venice's Arsenal Launches First Galley"
year: 1570
country: "Italy"
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startDate: "1570-01-01"
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# Venice's Arsenal Launches First Galley

> Venice's revolutionary assembly-line shipyard produced a fully-equipped war galley in a single day, pioneering industrial manufacturing centuries before the industrial revolution.

## Summary

The Venetian Arsenal is a complex of former shipyards and armories clustered together in the city of Venice in northern Italy. Owned by the state, the Arsenal was responsible for the bulk of the Venetian Republic's naval power from the Late Middle Ages to the early modern period. It was "one of the earliest large-scale industrial enterprises in history".

## Sources

- [Venice Arsenal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venetian_Arsenal) - Wikipedia

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