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The first of the railroads
These early railroads were small and were used by horses carrying the goods from place to place. These railroads were connected from mines to mines for max production. -
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Railroads
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Peter coopers designes
Peter cooper developed the first locomotive called the Tomb Thumb. To porve that the locomotive was great! He raced a horse drawn train and before the end of the race Tom broke down and lost... Regardless this starts a new era of trains. -
Expansion
From 1840 to 1860 railroads expanded for thousands of miles. -
More expansion
Rilroads now extended for 31,000 miles mostly in the North and West. -
Steel
Steel since the 1800's were manly for the production of railroads. in the 1870's steel miils produced 77,000 tons of steel. -
How industries affected the people
By 1890 congreee passed the Sherman antitrust Act. Which pretty much banned anything to do with creating a monopoly. Over the years of creating steel, and railroads. People became crazy for money and this became greed for more, and that how monopolies were formed, but because of missmanagment it was bad for the economy. -
More steel
Over the few decades, the production of steel became much more and now grew to about 11 million tons of steel. -
Andrew Carnegie
In 1901 Andrew Carnegie realized the potential of steel but how the wealth produced is affected by man. And he describes in three modes how man should react to the wealth made by man. How he she should learn to invest or give. How to spend money wisely. -
impacts of the railroad
Railroads have been around for a long time in the United States, and as the yeas go on in the 21st century railroads that used to be a big thing is now dissappearing. Railroads that used to bring money to this new place is now to doing much at all. A lot of railroads are being salvaged for money, and trains are rusting and not being used. Over the years it brought new people here, it took citizens places, and became a luxurius way of fast travel around the countries.
