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... importance by the 1890s . The importance of agriculture stimulated one of the state's most important industries — the invention and manufacture of farm im- plements . The Civil War accelerated the search for labor - saving devices , for ...
... importance by the 1890s . The importance of agriculture stimulated one of the state's most important industries — the invention and manufacture of farm im- plements . The Civil War accelerated the search for labor - saving devices , for ...
Page 126
... important machines had been pretty well developed , but improvements are constantly being made . Those which were of chief importance in the Illinois corn belt were the following : the improvement on the check row planter and the ...
... important machines had been pretty well developed , but improvements are constantly being made . Those which were of chief importance in the Illinois corn belt were the following : the improvement on the check row planter and the ...
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... important railroad revenue . By the mid - 1880s , bituminous coal from Illinois had replaced the eastern product in the big - city markets . Chicago and St. Louis became important centers of trans - shipment of coal supplies to the west ...
... important railroad revenue . By the mid - 1880s , bituminous coal from Illinois had replaced the eastern product in the big - city markets . Chicago and St. Louis became important centers of trans - shipment of coal supplies to the west ...
Contents
Of People and Places | 1 |
Structure of Governmental Power | 35 |
Of Men and Machines | 72 |
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| Title | Building for the Centuries: Illinois, 1865 to 1898 Volume 4 of Sesquicentennial history of Illinois |
| Author | John Howard Keiser |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press, 1977 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 Aug 2006 |
| ISBN | 0252006178, 9780252006173 |
| Length | 386 pages |
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