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An iron worker,Abraham Darby,found a way to smelt iron allowing it to pour it into molds, yielding cast iron.
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The first bridge made from cast iron was built in Ironbridge.
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innovations of Britain's industrial revolution diffused into Mainland Europe.
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The first steam-powered vessel crossed the Atlantic creating a new age for ocean shipping.
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Japan colonized Korea, Tiawan,and portions of Mainland China that helped bringcapital and resources for industry.
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Alfred Weber developed Theory of the location of industries, that focused on specific factors that pulled industries to particular locations.
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China's major industrial expansion occured when communist planners took over and their lesding priorities was to develop china's resources and industries.
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The primary industrial regions of industrial centers were western Europe,eastern North America,western Russia and Ukraine,and East Asia
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China's industrial development was promoted by soviet planners in 1960.
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Major television producers in Japan moved a number of their offshore production sites to Europe and the United states.
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Television manufacturing changed in order to employ greater mechanization in the production and assembly process.
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when entrepreneurs,built manufacturing plants in North Carolina, furniture manufacturing spent less time working.
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The reliance on energy sources from other places was greater than in the 1970.
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Global economic downturn resulted in job losses in communities dependent on both secondary and tertiary industries of rust belt regions.
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China became the second largest economy,the world's largest exporter, and its energy and raw materials demands are now affecting the global supply of key resources
