Economic Impacts of the Industrial Revolution

  • Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation

    Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation

    This is a prominent bank established in Hong Kong while it was a colony of the British Empire. This bank was used to finance British trade endeavors throughout the Asian British Empire
  • Standard Oil

    Standard Oil

    The Standard Oil company was founded in Cleveland, Ohio and is the largest oil company in the world along with the largest trust. James Smith played a big part in this
  • Debeers Diamonds

    Debeers Diamonds

    A diamond monopoly that controlled the demand and supply of the diamond industry. Started by Cecil Rhodes in 1888
  • Henry Ford

    Henry Ford

    Henry Ford invented the automobile, changed the lives of many. It enabled people to go wherever they wanted whenever they wanted. The automobile modernizes the transportation industry entirely.
  • United Fruit Company

    United Fruit Company

    The United Fruit Company was so powerful that it basically controlled small Central American countries. To people in those countries, United Fruit Co. represented American imperialism and suffering.
  • Unilever

    Unilever

    is a British-Dutch transnational consumer goods company that is headquartered in London, England. They were known for making soap back in the 1930s.