profitable sugar cane plantations of their colonies, but industrialisation did not begin there until the mid-19th century or later. A direct link is therefore difficult to discern, but there too the immense influx

Berg" or "Land of Berg") called their factories ‚Cromford‘, ‚Birmingham‘ or ‚Sheffield‘. Until the mid 19th century, the named region closely followed the English model while being a pioneer itself as to

first long-distance rail link from Cologne through the then rural Ruhr region to Minden. From the mid-19th century, the construction of railways fuelled the rapid expansion of the coal and steel industries

conquered the mass market. He deliberately set out to build a cheap everyday car for farmers in the mid-west, the Ford model T. Sales rose like lightning, bringing with them revolutionary methods of production

standardised serial production. This goal however, was only reached by the small arms industry in the mid-19th century. Until then, state owned manufactories made guns and pistols which looked alike, but in