When did the industrial revolution start in the u.s.a.?
While on a trip to England in 1810, Newburyport, Massachusetts merchant Francis Cabot Lowell was allowed to tour the British textile factories, but not take notes. Realising the War of 1812 had ruined his import business but that a market for domestic finished cloth was emerging in America, he memorised the design of textile machines, and on his return to the United States, he set up the Boston Manufacturing Company. Lowell and his partners built America’s first cotton-to-cloth textile mill at Waltham, Massachusetts. After his death in 1817, his Associates built America’s first planned factory town, which they named after him. This enterprise was capitalised in a public stock offering, one of the first uses of it in the United States. Lowell, Massachusetts, utilising 5.6 miles (9.0 km) of canals and ten thousand horsepower delivered by the Merrimack River, is considered the ‘Cradle of the American Industrial Revolution’. The short-lived utopia-like Lowell System was formed, as a direct
