KENNETH W. DOBYNS

The economic advantage of the North over the South in the Civil War is well known. Not so well-known is the huge technological advantage that the North had. This quotation gives an indication of the extreme difference. The North fought the war on all fronts including the technological one where no weapons and methodologies from the telegraph to the military railroad were critical. The South by contrast did not have the manpower to fight the war and keep industry and scientific technological development going also.

The economic advantage of the North over the South in the Civil War is well known. Not so well-known is the huge technological advantage that the North had. This quotation gives an indication of the extreme difference. The North fought the war on all fronts including the technological one where no weapons and methodologies from the telegraph to the military railroad were critical. The South by contrast did not have the manpower to fight the war and keep industry and scientific technological development going also.