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The Factories (Nineteenth Century America)
The Factories - Nineteenth Century America Author:Leonard Everett Fisher A young Englishman with an unheard-of mechanical know-how came to the United States at the close of the 18th century and soon after set up the new nation's first factory in Rhode Island. Using machines to make cotton thread, and people to run the machines, he was instrumental in getting America into the Industrial Revolution. — During the fir... more »st years of the 19th century, New England developed as the manufacturing center of the country. By the last years of the century, factories from New Haven to Chicago, and almost everywhere in between, were turning out more products than all the rest of the world's factories combined.
The factory not only contributed to burgeoning America, it nourished it, and by the end of the century the country had become a major industrial power.« less