 It supplied machinery for the Imperial Arsenal, Mint, and glassworks, and undertook a range of projects from bridge-building to ornamental metalwork.Baird also had a sugar refinery using his own innovative method of refining.The Baird Works were responsible for the "Elizaveta", Russia's first steamship, launched in 1815, and this early start gave them a ten-year monopoly on steamship routes from St. Petersburg, including the "Elizaveta's" run to Kronstadt.