ADV 316 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Isaac Singer, Combine Harvester, Sewing Machine
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Lewis & clark (try to get to pacific) Not necessarily creative but fueled imaginations related to manifest destiny. Austin laid out to be a new capital, rare. Waltham-lowell system: giant mills driven by waterpower, first attempt at vertical integration (bringing in newly blossoming cotton biz) Which really started mass production (and sweatshops) Very human: random chance/opportunity (meeting bostonian working with electricity), threw lot of personal effort behind it to get there first. Death of wife spurred morse to new idea; missed her passing, wanted something instant. These automations opened up midwest (became world"s breadbasket) Balloon framing (from french word that"s why. Creative to replace log cabin, could put it on train (could order a house from. Sears for ), successfully worked with limited resources (was scalable) Explosion in transportation: free flow of people, goods, ideas (telegraph new conduit for this one) National road (not just toll roads), only one built totally by fed gov, ending at st.
