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Subject: [GM-L] Waltham, MA and the Boston Mfg. Co. -beginning of the Industrial Revolution
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 21:38:22 EDT

The Beginning of a Revolution:
Waltham and the Boston Manufacturing Company

http://www.tcr.org/advpl_3.html

In the United States, the Industrial Revolution marked the beginning of
America's transition from a weak, agrarian nation to a global, industrial
superpower. Some maintain that this Revolution started in 1813 in Waltham, a
small, rural village in Eastern Massachusetts. The Boston Manufacturing
Company (BMC) built a cotton mill there which, in less than a decade, would
overcome all domestic and foreign competition, expand faster than any textile
company before or after it, and be the direct inspiration for the Lowell
mills in Northern Massachusetts

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