Wish: Stories like these should be published during the weekend. So that one can leisurely read, meander into the hyperlinks, watch a few related Ken Burns vid

Wish: Stories like these should be published during the weekend. So that one can leisurely read, meander into the hyperlinks, watch a few related Ken Burns videos, and then ruminate even more by creating some Dall-E images. Most of that time's history does not cover the incredible economic development that happened during that period, where US capita income leapfrogged that of Britain. Thousands of new patents were filed, new machines were created, and the foundation of the financial and industrial boom was created, the riches of which we still enjoy today.