How The Industrial Revolution Brought Social, Economic And Political Change To America?

The formation, construction, and operation trains brought social, economic and political change to America. America came to see bridges and other structures on which train would operate crossing the country. In addition to transportation, railroads contributed to other industries like iron and communications. Iron production grew as well, even more than the population during the 1860’s since the demand was so high for railroads. Communication also became important for railroads. According to Understanding the American Promise, “in 1844, Samuel F.B. Morse demonstrated the potential of his telegraph by transmitting an electronic message between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore.” This technology worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. Although the telegraph has fallen of widespread by the 21st century replaced by the telephone, fax machine, and internet, it laid the groundwork for the communications revolution that led to those later innovations.
According to an online article, US History, “The railroad was first developed in Great Britain. A man named George Stephenson successfully applied the steam technology of the day and created the world's first successful locomotive. The first engines used in the United States were purchased from the Stephenson Works in England. Even rails were largely
This transition included going from hand production methods to machines, new chemical manufacturing and iron production processes, improved efficiency of water power the increasing use of steam power, the development of machine tools and the rise of the factor system. It also included the change from wood and to coal. Textiles were the dominant industry of the Industrial Revolution in terms of employment, value of output and capital invested; the textile industry was also the first to use modern production