Economic Transformation
While researching texts written about manufacturing in the 1800s, I found several authors who published literature about how one man contributed to the transformation in economics. These authors express the importance in his work and how modern manufacturing has expanded, due to his innovation. Modern manufactory and the economic transformation can greatly be credited to Eli Terry.
During the Revolutionary War, “Connecticut was the epicenter of clock-making in the United States” (Sniderman, 2012). Other clock making enthuses, such as Chauncey Jerome, along with many others took the opportunity to benefit from the war. Although, not as Soldiers but as businessmen. The quest for expanding what was once a hobby, reaches …show more content…
The smaller clocks design allowed him to” produced clocks in large quantities until advancements in sheet-metal replaced wooden clock bodies almost a century later” (Sniderman, 2012). The design and manufacturing of these smaller shelf clocks came into production after he “invented and patented his Pillar Scroll Top Case, a 'one-day' clock, which revolutionized the business” (Sniderman, 2012). “By the 1840s, he was selling his clocks in England, the hub of the Industrial Revolution; two decades later, his workers were turning out 200,000 clocks a year, clear testimony to American industrial enterprise (Henretta et al 261). From hand crafted pieces of wooden art to machine operated devices used to produce multiple pieces of the same pieces of art, Sir Eli Terry, proves to be a great contributor to the American Economic Transformation. Although the Revolutionary War brought change and created many opportunities in support of the war effort, one man revolutionized the manufacturing industry by not only creating a way to mass produce products that contributes to the war effort but to produce products to decorate homes across the world, and help people to keep track of
While researching texts written about manufacturing in the 1800s, I found several authors who published literature about how one man contributed to the transformation in economics. These authors express the importance in his work and how modern manufacturing has expanded, due to his innovation. Modern manufactory and the economic transformation can greatly be credited to Eli Terry.
During the Revolutionary War, “Connecticut was the epicenter of clock-making in the United States” (Sniderman, 2012). Other clock making enthuses, such as Chauncey Jerome, along with many others took the opportunity to benefit from the war. Although, not as Soldiers but as businessmen. The quest for expanding what was once a hobby, reaches …show more content…
The smaller clocks design allowed him to” produced clocks in large quantities until advancements in sheet-metal replaced wooden clock bodies almost a century later” (Sniderman, 2012). The design and manufacturing of these smaller shelf clocks came into production after he “invented and patented his Pillar Scroll Top Case, a 'one-day' clock, which revolutionized the business” (Sniderman, 2012). “By the 1840s, he was selling his clocks in England, the hub of the Industrial Revolution; two decades later, his workers were turning out 200,000 clocks a year, clear testimony to American industrial enterprise (Henretta et al 261). From hand crafted pieces of wooden art to machine operated devices used to produce multiple pieces of the same pieces of art, Sir Eli Terry, proves to be a great contributor to the American Economic Transformation. Although the Revolutionary War brought change and created many opportunities in support of the war effort, one man revolutionized the manufacturing industry by not only creating a way to mass produce products that contributes to the war effort but to produce products to decorate homes across the world, and help people to keep track of