In 1886, according to Charles R. Morris in “The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution,” “Bloomingdale’s catalog — 160 pages, stuffed with some 1,700 products, from ladies’ corsets to pistols — advised its clients to send a follow-up inquiry if they had not received an order confirmation within 10 days after they had posted it, but to allow 15 days if they lived on the Pacific Coast.” The variety of goods offered by Bloomingdale’s and also the ease of ordering and transporting them were results of a century of rapid development of the country’s factories, canals, railroads and telegraph lines.
The First American Industrial Revolution
By Charles R. Morris
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