Kyle Harrison
to-read
The Dawn of Innovation
The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution
- Author
- Charles R. Morris
- Published
- 2012
- Pages
- 376
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Morris on America’s first industrial revolution — the decades when a raw agricultural republic out-built Britain, told through canals, steamboats, machine tools and interchangeable parts.
Where I saw it: Posted by @lhamtil on X (March 26, 2025) with a cover photo and the aside “Once again, I’m a history account.”
Connections
- Innovation — the American variant, and why it took the form it did.
- Manufacturing — machine tools and interchangeable parts as the real breakthrough.
- Historical Futurism — an earlier takeoff read for what it says about the next one.