... length, extending from Quincy, Massachusetts, to the Neponset River it was completed in 1827. The second railroad was built in May of the year 1827 it was a distance of nine miles extending from the coalmines in Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, to the Lehigh River. In 1828 the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company constructed a railroad from their coalmines to Honesdale, the termination of their canal (Encarta, 2000). During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries ... work long hours under harsh conditions. Factory owners and managers paid the minimum amount necessary for a work force,...

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... in New Lanark New Lanark, the former cotton spinning village in the valley of the River Clyde near the old town of Lanark, is famous internationally because of its pioneering management, and social and educational experiments led by the publicist, Robert Owen. New Lanark is also an important industrial monument, because of its role as an early center of mass production using state-of-the-art technology at the time in 1785. It was ... , but to change the conditions of the people who were surrounded by circumstances having an injurious influence upon the character of the entire population....

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... for numerous inventors. At first many workers didn't accept machines and many inventions were destroyed By the 1750's the industrial Revolution had begun. People's lives was drastically changed during the industrial revolution. People were living in germ infested, crowded and very unhealthful conditions, much like their work place. Children and women worked in harsh conditions. People were working long hours for little pay. Eventually ... allowed trade to grow towards inland routes. The idea of the steam powered boat had many prophesies during the 18th Century. Inventors and businessmen...

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