Description
The thirty years between 1815 and 1845 witnessed the greatest transformation in American infrastructure and information technology before the internet. Investment and experimentation helped to facilitate the creation of a single national, American economy, capable of challenging European countries for supremacy. Prior to 1815, the most advanced industrial technology most Americans had ever seen was a windmill. But by 1845 America had begun to look more like an industrialized, developed nation than an agricultural, developing nation. We’ll examine five of the most important new technologies that seeded that change: canals, roads, rails, post offices, and the telegraph.
