It's hard to imagine that in the Year of the 1850's the United States of America was only an agricultural powerhouse -- with most of the country, if not all, a land of farms and small towns with a demographic fewer than one in five Americans living in urban areas. While England was rapidly industrializing, Americans were contented to make their living on farms as the land was cheap and labor was scarce and costly; hardly an ideal factor to start a living using man power. However, between the years 1860 and 1900, a duration of only forty years the United States had become the greatest industrial nation in the world. What went right? a question probably all European industrial giants are all too familiar with-- the factors that helped America's
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Machines were another vital factor that promoted America’s huge industrial growth during the forty years timeframe. An excerpt from a report written in 1854 stated, “. . . everything that could be done to reduce labour in the movement of materials from one point to another was adopted,” having machines made production a lot faster and allowed for less product to spoil saving the factory or company money. An example of such machine is the sewing machine, it made readily worn clothes out of raw materials in a matter of minutes or hours. Mass production is the process of making products efficiently and cheaply, not only benefitting the company owners but also the people as it resulted in lower prices due to the shortened amount of time needed to produce the goods as well as the cost saved for labor. With all of the new and innovative things that began to emerge, people became more motivated and educated than over. This spurred a large amount of useful inventions that are still widely used and pertinent in today’s modern world. All of the modern inventions and the amount of wealth that was brought into the cities greatly improved the way that people lived as it made their jobs less intensive and hazardly. A prime example of machines doing wonder is that between 1860 and 1900, the U.S. production of coal increased from 10,000 short tons to 210,000 short tons, a feat that could possibly never be done with pure human labor.
The Industrial Revolution-- a time of great imagination and progress. The combinations of immigrants, railroads, and machines made America the greatest Industrial nation in the world. It launched the modern age and drove industrial technology forward at a faster rate than ever before, possibly still the biggest event in humankind where immense amount of ideas were thought of and
Machines were another vital factor that promoted America’s huge industrial growth during the forty years timeframe. An excerpt from a report written in 1854 stated, “. . . everything that could be done to reduce labour in the movement of materials from one point to another was adopted,” having machines made production a lot faster and allowed for less product to spoil saving the factory or company money. An example of such machine is the sewing machine, it made readily worn clothes out of raw materials in a matter of minutes or hours. Mass production is the process of making products efficiently and cheaply, not only benefitting the company owners but also the people as it resulted in lower prices due to the shortened amount of time needed to produce the goods as well as the cost saved for labor. With all of the new and innovative things that began to emerge, people became more motivated and educated than over. This spurred a large amount of useful inventions that are still widely used and pertinent in today’s modern world. All of the modern inventions and the amount of wealth that was brought into the cities greatly improved the way that people lived as it made their jobs less intensive and hazardly. A prime example of machines doing wonder is that between 1860 and 1900, the U.S. production of coal increased from 10,000 short tons to 210,000 short tons, a feat that could possibly never be done with pure human labor.
The Industrial Revolution-- a time of great imagination and progress. The combinations of immigrants, railroads, and machines made America the greatest Industrial nation in the world. It launched the modern age and drove industrial technology forward at a faster rate than ever before, possibly still the biggest event in humankind where immense amount of ideas were thought of and