In looking through the Fall Brooke records I am seeing how railroads were really at the core of the Industrial Revolution. They moved people and freight across the country and stimulated economic growth. Also, the newly pioneered techniques of management railroads used to control their growing operations, sparked a revolution that was either copied by, used by, and had an impact on other businesses. Railroads allowed the industrial revolution to grow in the way that it did, allowing businesses to develop new technologies, machines, and management we still see and use today.
When Scottish inventor James Watt made his improvements to steam engine technology, he helped launch the Industrial Revolution. Prior to Watt’s innovations, industry was restricted to areas near rivers, which were its primary source of energy. The steam engine allowed industry to move from the riverside to anywhere.
As factories move into cities they were joined by people who followed them in in order to find work. Industrialization and urbanization go hand in hand and directly affect each other. The rise of population in the new cities fed the expanding market and stimulated greater production, which created more jobs. For Fall Brook, industrial factories, as well as the need for transportation and production during the Civil War, created a market for coal, as they relied on coal for industrial manufacturing such as steel and iron. This industrialization created urbanization as people move into Fall Brook helping to establish the town of Fall Brook.
Railroads were America’s first big business and did much to advance industrialization. Railroads were the first vehicles to exceed the speed of a horse, which compressed week-long journeys into days. For the first time people could travel to places they had never imagines, and use products that were not made in there nearby communities. By mid-century, the rails moved people, raw materials, and goods around the country relatively quickly, cheaply and, for the most part, in all seasons and weather. Also, innovations in railroad and bridge construction helped to decrease shipping times, which led to a decline in shipping rates.
As railroad tracks stretched across America, they helped to create a national market with their fast travel and ability to ship tons of products. The railroads had their hands in ever business, steel, iron, lumber, milling, mining, and machinery, and with the help of the railroads, these business were able to expand and grow, created new technologies and machines that increased their profit and product.
The tracks that crossed the state needed more employees to build, operate, and maintain the tracks and because of this, new operation methods, including the use of middle managers and white-collar employees, needed to be setup in order to manage the workers. These new methods of management would allow businesses, for the first time, to be owned not by day-to-day railroad managers, but the public. Railroads became the first publicly traded corporations as they needed significant capital to build tracks and stations. To do this companies sold shares, which could be bought and sold to the public.
Much of the technology that we have today came about with the expansion of business at the time of the Fall Brook Railroad. In the records I am seeing how everything started. I am seeing how Fall Brook is creating contracts with steel and lumber mills, and how when the railroads aren’t running many other businesses have to shut down because of their reliance on coal. I really am seeing the start of modern corporations, and the start of the technologies that we have today.
When Scottish inventor James Watt made his improvements to steam engine technology, he helped launch the Industrial Revolution. Prior to Watt’s innovations, industry was restricted to areas near rivers, which were its primary source of energy. The steam engine allowed industry to move from the riverside to anywhere.
As factories move into cities they were joined by people who followed them in in order to find work. Industrialization and urbanization go hand in hand and directly affect each other. The rise of population in the new cities fed the expanding market and stimulated greater production, which created more jobs. For Fall Brook, industrial factories, as well as the need for transportation and production during the Civil War, created a market for coal, as they relied on coal for industrial manufacturing such as steel and iron. This industrialization created urbanization as people move into Fall Brook helping to establish the town of Fall Brook.
Railroads were America’s first big business and did much to advance industrialization. Railroads were the first vehicles to exceed the speed of a horse, which compressed week-long journeys into days. For the first time people could travel to places they had never imagines, and use products that were not made in there nearby communities. By mid-century, the rails moved people, raw materials, and goods around the country relatively quickly, cheaply and, for the most part, in all seasons and weather. Also, innovations in railroad and bridge construction helped to decrease shipping times, which led to a decline in shipping rates.
As railroad tracks stretched across America, they helped to create a national market with their fast travel and ability to ship tons of products. The railroads had their hands in ever business, steel, iron, lumber, milling, mining, and machinery, and with the help of the railroads, these business were able to expand and grow, created new technologies and machines that increased their profit and product.
The tracks that crossed the state needed more employees to build, operate, and maintain the tracks and because of this, new operation methods, including the use of middle managers and white-collar employees, needed to be setup in order to manage the workers. These new methods of management would allow businesses, for the first time, to be owned not by day-to-day railroad managers, but the public. Railroads became the first publicly traded corporations as they needed significant capital to build tracks and stations. To do this companies sold shares, which could be bought and sold to the public.
Much of the technology that we have today came about with the expansion of business at the time of the Fall Brook Railroad. In the records I am seeing how everything started. I am seeing how Fall Brook is creating contracts with steel and lumber mills, and how when the railroads aren’t running many other businesses have to shut down because of their reliance on coal. I really am seeing the start of modern corporations, and the start of the technologies that we have today.