Soon these technologies were applied to more civilian uses, from clock-making, printing presses to the vast array of agricultural instruments, soap and candle works, such as William Colgate's in New York and Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati. The Lorillards produced and marketed tobacco in ever larger quantities and the Havemeyers launched the largest sugar refining plants in Brooklyn, reengineering an industry that had already made the fortunes of the Van Cortlandts, the Bayards and the Roosevelts in colonial New York. With the manufacturing came a spirit of engineering, which brought always new machines and useful devices that more and more organized plants turned out in quantities for the merchants to market. Singer sewing machines revolutionized household garment production as much as the reaper did agriculture. Heavy manufacturing plants were built to turn out locomotives and axles for the rapidly growing railroads and soon American locomotives from Baldwin or Norris were exported
Soon these technologies were applied to more civilian uses, from clock-making, printing presses to the vast array of agricultural instruments, soap and candle works, such as William Colgate's in New York and Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati. The Lorillards produced and marketed tobacco in ever larger quantities and the Havemeyers launched the largest sugar refining plants in Brooklyn, reengineering an industry that had already made the fortunes of the Van Cortlandts, the Bayards and the Roosevelts in colonial New York. With the manufacturing came a spirit of engineering, which brought always new machines and useful devices that more and more organized plants turned out in quantities for the merchants to market. Singer sewing machines revolutionized household garment production as much as the reaper did agriculture. Heavy manufacturing plants were built to turn out locomotives and axles for the rapidly growing railroads and soon American locomotives from Baldwin or Norris were exported