HIST 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Fur Trade, Simeon North, Interchangeable Parts
Document Summary
Slater moves to u. s. illegally and duplicates machinery for textile mill in am. Lowell flatters british ppl about their technology and they let him see their factories and he"d copy them for the u. s. Boston associates brought in to keep up lowell"s business advancing. Slater"s mill was most popular and mills were called family mills. American system of manufactures starts with eli whitney. 1798 whitney got permission to build guns and thought he could make them faster by breaking it down into its component parts and have standardized parts that could be changed anywhere. Simeon north invents machines to grind rifle parts to specifications. John hall 1824 creates springfield rifle made with machine made interchangeable parts. Available land allowed ppl to get involved in comm. ag. Brits and french dominant in fur trading until 1820s with the rocky mtn. William ashley came up with an idea to trade furs differently.
