We would still have been home. Here, though we've found a wonderful town, a fine church, good schools, and nice house, it's a wrench. It may always be. He's a born teacher and a natural ranconteur. They had rows and rows of machines all doing the same thing.
Many historians think that was the benchmark, the beginning of the factory system.
New England manufacturers, he says, also invented interchangeable parts in the 1840s to supply rifles to the U.S. Army for the Mexican American War. A soldier in field with just a screwdriver could take a gun from a fallen comrade and replace parts in his own gun. Surprisingly, this revolution did not take place in Springfield, Massachusetts, or Enfield, Connecticut, cities that gave their names to famous firearms. I know about this because of my connection with the industrial museum in Windsor. At about that time, the British government sent their military people to America to see the process of interchangeable parts.