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2. Technological and industrial history of the United States

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   One of the real impetuses for the United States entering the Industrial Revolution was the passage of the Embargo Act of 1807, the War of 1812 (1812–15) and the Napoleonic Wars (1803–15) which cut off supplies of new and cheaper Industrial revolution products from Britain. The lack of access to these goods all provided a strong incentive to ...

3. Manufacturing in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Figure 1-Job measures: The blue line (left axis) is the ratio of manufacturing jobs to the total number of non-farm payroll jobs. It has declined since the 1960s as manufacturing jobs fell and services expanded. The red line (right axis) is the number of manufacturing jobs (000s), which had fallen by nearly one-third since the late 1990s. [14]

4. Rust Belt - Wikipedia

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   The Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, has claimed that free trade created a large trade deficit in the United States for decades which lead to the closure of many factories and cost the United States millions of jobs in the manufacturing sector. Trade deficits lead to significant wage losses, not only for workers in the ...

5. Manufacturing Camp shows students different careers available ...

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   The camp was designed to introduce area high school students to manufacturing careers available in the area and educational opportunities that exist at local schools to pursue those jobs.

6. Ohio History Connection - Wikipedia

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   The Ohio History Connection operates dozens of state historic sites across Ohio. Its headquarters is the 250,000-square-foot (23,000 m 2) Ohio History Center in Columbus, Ohio, a Brutalist concrete structure. [14] [15] Extensive exhibits cover Ohio's history from the Ice Age to the present. The Center includes state archives and library spaces ...

7. Jeffrey Manufacturing Company - Wikipedia

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   The Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, was an American industrial equipment manufacturing company, at one time the largest producer of coal cutting machines and mining locomotives in the world. It was established in 1878 as the Lechner Mining Machine Company, based in Columbus, Ohio , and is credited with producing America's first power-driven coal ...