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Samuel Slater (British mill worker) emigrated to the United States, there he built a spinning machine from a partial design. -
Moses Brown opened the first factory in the United States to use Samuel´s machine in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. -
William Cockerill illegally made his way to Belgium carrying his secret plans for building spinning machinery. -
The Northeast experienced much industrial growth. -
Cities like Chicago and Minneapolis expanded rapidly. -
A limited number of large, powerful companies controlled more than two-thirds of the nation’s railroad tracks. Businesses of all kinds began to merge. Smaller companies joined together to form a larger one. -
A unified, imperial Germany had become both an industrial and a military giant. -
The French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars had halted trade, interrupted communication, and caused inflation in some parts of the continent. -
Lowell, Massachusetts, became a booming manufacturing center model for other towns. -
Germany began to copy the British model by importing British equipment and engineers. They also built railroads that linked its growing manufacturing cities, such as Frankfurt, with the Ruhr Valley’s coal and iron ore deposits. -
A thriving national market for new French products was created. -
Civil War ended and the United States stopped being primarily agricultural.