Innovators of Change
With America engrossed in intellectual fervor, the British were vying to keep their status at the top of the industrial heap. In fact, they enacted laws that forbade the selling of machinery to foreign markets. Such ploys allowed them to hold on to their elite status while maintaining their thriving economy. Additionally, the British were now seen as the masters of mass production; they were considered the perfectionists of industry. They were not about to let others in on their secrets and risk foreign competition. However, the British government would not have the ultimate say in the matter; an inventor named Samuel Slater would.