Rapid industrialisation
- Created by: lucywedge16
- Created on: 14-12-20 10:20
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- not a paramount factor. Despite many patents being implemented,workforce still upmost importance, 12 million immigrants coming to work in America 1870-1900.
- few labour saving devices, bessemer process still required workers to put pif or wrought iron into a Bessemer furnace.
- without influx workers, improved lightbulbs immaterial if no workers to labour into night
- without an influx of workers, improvementstransporttion such as the steamship made journeys safer and improved speed of journeys (from 5-8 knots wooden ships to 12 knots slow steaming ships
- primary condition created US government made techno advances ignite.
- pro-patent climate 1870-80's
- US patent law (consitution)- promoted '...progress in science and useful arts...', granted rights to inventors to writings, discoveries (e.g. Bell's telephone success through experimentation in sound), encouragement.
- investigative labs, Menlo Park, TE apply 400 patents himself. Unrestrictive law favoured experimentation.
- Gov actively helped, e.g. US navy helping to lie Atlantic Cable, granting money for forming Cable , granting money for it. Also provided subsidies and loans form railroads across US.
- pro-patent climate 1870-80's
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- techno advances aided growth monopolies: provide communication, improve means transportation, bettering/ increasing quantity of commodity.
- but acted more as a catalyst to fuel corporations which went on to play huge part in RI
- only possible underlying conditions gov: encourage experi, help construct modern America.
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