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Industrialization
The Idustrialization Begins and Ends -
Beverly Cotton Manufactory
Beverly Cotton Manufactory was the first cotton mill in America.Its the largest cotton mill of its era. -
Slater's Mill
Samuel Slater founded this company. -
The Third Wollen Mill
Daniel Day foundend the third woollen mill -
Boston Manufacturing Company
Francis Cabot Lowell founded Boston Manufacrturing Company -
Waltham Watch Company
David Davis, Edward Howard and Aaron Lufkin Dennison formed together the company that would later become the Waltham Watch Company. They produce clocks, watches, and Aircraft Clocks -
Mass Pruction of Steel
In the 1860s Sir Henry Bessemer invented a new furnace which could convert wrought iron into steel in large quantities. However, it only became widely available in the 1870s after the process was modified to produce more uniform quality. -
Industrialization Expands to the South
After the Civil war all of the souths factory are destroyed. The south needed to figure out another way to make income -
First Giant Industrial Corporation
By the 1890s, industrialisation in these areas had created the first giant industrial corporations with burgeoning global interests, as companies like U.S. Steel, General Electric, Standard Oil and Bayer AG joined the railroad companies on the world's stock markets.
