“The kind of precision manufacturing epitomized in the armories, while it was important, was only a small share of the economy until quite late in the century. Large-scale natural resource development and processing was the name of the game.” KindImportantGamesNamesNaturalEconomyShareCenturyDevelopmentLateResourcesScalesManufacturingPrecisionNatural ResourcesProcessingLarge Scale Author:Charles R. Morris
“The drive to scale in almost every endeavor. The British went very large scale in ship building and a few other industries. Their steel plants were bigger and much more advanced than ours after the Civil War, but we had blown past them by the mid-80s.” WarPastBuildingIndustryBiggerPlantBritishScalesShipsCivil WarEndeavorSteel80sLarge Scale Author:Charles R. Morris
“No specific technology. My guess is that it was the instinct always to go to maximum scale. Great Britain kept much more of a small shop mindset well into the twentieth century, for instance.” WellsTechnologyCenturyInstinctMindsetScalesInstanceBritainShopsMaximumTwentieth CenturyGreat Britain Author:Charles R. Morris
“The evolution was always to greater scale and speed. Other countries did that here and there - GB in textiles, Germany in steel - but we went in that direction almost across the board.” CountryGreaterEvolutionSpeedScalesBoardsGermanyOther CountriesSteelHere And ThereTextiles Author:Charles R. Morris
