250 Years of American Manufacturing

In our first post about the history of manufacturing improvements in the USA, [click here] we talked about how the the constraint back in the earliest days of production was simple. Output was limited by human hands. That started to change in the late 1700s as consistent power entered the picture. Steam engines gave factories […]

As the United States Semiquincentennial approaches, you might notice some scattered information here and there about where this country started and, just as significantly, how it grew.    [You also might here conversations such as this: “July 4,1776 was when we adopted the Constitution of the United States, right?“  “No, that was in 1787.”   “Oh,