25 years after President Lincoln was assassinated the United States became the first manufacturing nation in the world. The United States did what took England a hundred years to accomplish half the time. The last three decades of the nineteenth century overshadowed all that had come before. Industrialism contributed to the growth of cities and railroads across the nation. One of the most important developments was the revolutionizing of iron and steel. The steel industry emerged around western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio due to the fact that coal, which is used to fuel the furnaces, and iron, which is made into steel using a variety of methods, were found in abundance in that area. Pittsburg, P.A. became one of the centers of the steel world. New Jersey ironmaster Abram S. Hewitt introduced a process of making steel supplanted
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Two creations were critical to its development on of which was the creation of gas. Gas is a result of a process which extracts lubricating and fuel oil were removed from crude oil. France, Germany, and Austria, early in the nineteenth century, began developing internal combustion engines. Nicholaus August Otto, a German, created a gas-powered four stroke engine in the mid 1860’s. One of his employees later perfected an engine which could be used in automobiles. Charles and Frank Duryea built the first the gas-driven vehicle in 1893 three years before Henry Ford produced the first of the famous cars named for him. 1895 saw 4 vehicles on the roads but 22 years later in 1917 there were almost 5 million. Orville and Wilbur Wright used the same kind of engine from vehicle to power a glider. In 1903 the Wright brothers flew an airplane 120 feet in 12 seconds. Although the first airplane was built in the U.S., France made most of the early progress on airplanes. Commercial flight seemed dim until 1920’s when Charles Lindbergh flew solo from New York to
Two creations were critical to its development on of which was the creation of gas. Gas is a result of a process which extracts lubricating and fuel oil were removed from crude oil. France, Germany, and Austria, early in the nineteenth century, began developing internal combustion engines. Nicholaus August Otto, a German, created a gas-powered four stroke engine in the mid 1860’s. One of his employees later perfected an engine which could be used in automobiles. Charles and Frank Duryea built the first the gas-driven vehicle in 1893 three years before Henry Ford produced the first of the famous cars named for him. 1895 saw 4 vehicles on the roads but 22 years later in 1917 there were almost 5 million. Orville and Wilbur Wright used the same kind of engine from vehicle to power a glider. In 1903 the Wright brothers flew an airplane 120 feet in 12 seconds. Although the first airplane was built in the U.S., France made most of the early progress on airplanes. Commercial flight seemed dim until 1920’s when Charles Lindbergh flew solo from New York to