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American Industrial Revolution
Samuel Slader's Introduction of British loom designs would jumpstart American industry in the NorthEast ("The Industrial Revolution"). The United States so heartily adopted it that Industrialization itself would come to be viewed as an American ideal, with the Industrial Revolution progressively being dominated by American inventions and innovations increasingly as it evolved, such as Edison's incandescent light ("The First"; "Lighting a Revolution"). -
First American Commercial Railway Chartered
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad becomes the first commercial, chartered railway in the United States, starting a trend of railway network growth that would facilitate the massive movement of raw materials and finished goods that would feed the industrial nation ("First US Railway"). -
Incorporation of the Amoskeag Mill Company
In the newly named Manchester, New Hampshire, immitating the British Industrial giant, Benjamin Prichard built the United States' first Textile mill. Its position as the first would allow it to build into becomming the largest in the world at one point ("Amoskeag Manufacturing"). -
Bessemer Process
The Bessemer Process for making steel out of refined pig iron is introduced to the public, without which the entirety of the later Industrial Revolution, including all of its factories and engineering feats, would not have been possible (Misa 18). -
Invention of the Lightbulb
Thomas Edison's incandescent lightbulb using carbon-coated paper filament would revolutionize industry and change life as it was known ("Lighting a Revolution"), No longer would the only light fighting the darkness be the red glare of fire, a theme explored in Bellow's "Excavation at Night". -
George Wesley Bellows is born
George Wesley Bellows was born in Columbus, Ohio to a contractor and Bishop (Adams). -
Charles Sheeler is born
Charles Sheeler is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, an industrial center of the United States, to a steamship worker and his wife (Troyen). -
Tom Hart Benton is born
Muralist Tom Hart Benton is born in Neosho Missouri to a family of lawyers and politicians ("Thomas Hart Benton"). -
First US Steel Community in Indiana
US Steel founds the city of Gary Indiana to be used as a steel production community, eventually leading to the first steel factory in the state (Lane Preface). These factories would later provide inspiration for Thomas Hart Benton. -
Excavation at Night
George Bellows, artist of the Ashcan School, paints "Excavation at Night" along with 3 sister paintings to depict the construction of the Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan ("Excavation at Night"). -
Completion of the Pennsylvania Station
Pennsylvania Station, an engineering marvel in its own right due to its spanning under the Hudson River, is completed ("Then and Now"). -
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The Great Depression
The United State's Stock Market Crashes, and banking inflation results in a depression that spreads throughout the whole world, an event highly exacerbated by the industrial production of the nation overproducing ("The Great Depression). -
The Steel Mill
Thomas Hart Benton paints "The Steel Mill" as a part of his mural for the state of Indiana, harkening to the Industrial, particularly steel-based, nature of the state ("The Steel Mill"). -
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Second World War
The global confict the United States participated in was not only an event of great strife, but also of great innovation and booming industry to provide for the troops all they needed to bring home victory. This can be seen in the advances of computing machines during this period ("Timeline of Computer"). -
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Digital Age
With the invention of the Atanasoft-Berry Computer at Iowa State College, the first modern computer was created, signalling the start of the digital age ("Timeline of Computer"). -
Amoskeag Mills #2
Charles Sheeler paints his rendition of the remains of the Amoskeag Mill, once the largest textile mill in the world, then reduced to a ghost town ("Amoskeag Mills #2").
