In the beginning gb tried to keep everything at home
Parliamentment passed laws...
By 1820s...didn't last long
Later allowed for movement

RR being built in NA, India, and Latin America

British set up factories and supplied capital, equipment and support staff

Major factories built in France, Germany and usa

Work force was drastically depleted bc of napoleonic wars

Had many scientist

By 1870 had railways and growing mining industry

Borrowed money to start factories

RR

Strong coal, iron, and textiles emerged

1870 became a country and a main power

North, textiles

South, agriculture

Transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869

Industry grew- NE
GB capital and machinery and American mechanical skills promoted new industry.
Shoe and textile in New England
Coal and ironworks in Penn.

USA, GB, Germany top three

Use of machines replaced costly human labor
Could produce huge quantities of identical goods

Early 1800’s- Eli Whitney used interchangeable parts to increase factory production

1890’s- efficiency became a science

Frederick Taylor- division of labor
Divide tasks into detailed and specific segments of a step-by-step procedure

To be used on assembly line
Henry Ford

1830’s Samuel Morse
First telegraph
Morse code
1854-patented
Telegraph lined linked most European and North American cities.

1895- Guglielmo Marconi- wireless telegraph
First radio

Alexander Graham Bell- 1876

1831- Michael Faraday found a way to produce an electric current
Led to development of electric generator- 1870’s

Thomas Edison- phonograph
Incandescent light bulb

1831- Michael Faraday found a way to produce an electric current
Led to development of electric generator- 1870’s

Thomas Edison- phonograph
Incandescent light bulb

1880’s- Gottlieb Daimler
Internal-combustion engine to run on gasoline.
Rudolf Diesel
Oil-burning internal-combustion engine
Factories, ships and locomotives

Led to what?

Gasoline engines led to aviation technology
1890’s- Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Dirigible
Wilbur and Orville Wright
First successful flight of a motorized airplane
Wooden airplane the distance of 100 yards

Vehicles needed a steady supply of fuel for power and rubber for tires.
Petroleum and rubber industries skyrocketed
Advances in transportation, communications, and electricity sped the world into an era of increasing mechanization

Free enterprise
Capitalism- economic system in which individuals and private firms, not the gov’t, own the means of production-including land, machinery, and the workplace
Capitalist system-individuals decide how they can make a profit and determine business practices accordingly