From Guns to Gramophones: Civil War and the Technology that Shaped America
Schedule
Wed Oct 16 2024 at 07:00 pm
Location
11 Penacook St, Penacook, NH, United States, New Hampshire 03303 | Concord, NH
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Join us for our first in-person event in quite a long time! Carrie Brown explores the technological triumph that helped save the Union and then transformed the nation. During the Civil War, northern industry produced a million and a half rifles, along with tens of thousands of pistols and carbines. How did the North produce all of those weapons? The answer lies in new machinery and methods for producing guns with interchangeable parts. Once the system of mass production had been tested and perfected, what happened after the war? In the period from 1870 to 1910 new factory technology and new print media fueled the development of mass consumerism. While this program tells a broad, national story, it focuses on the critical and somewhat surprising role of Vermont and New Hampshire in producing industrial technology that won the war and changed American life.
Presenter: Carrie Brown
Presented by @New Hampshire Humanities
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Where is it happening?
11 Penacook St, Penacook, NH, United States, New Hampshire 03303, 20 Penacook St, Concord, NH 03301-6427, United States,Concord, New HampshireEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
