The Great Lakes Region

The region of Great Lakes includes a large portionthe most memorable contributions on technology
of a province in Ontario, Canada. It also includesinclude Cyrus McCormick's mechanical reaper,
eight states in the USA. These US states bordergrain elevator and the steel plow by John Deere.
Great Lakes and they are New York, Ohio,The University of Chicago and the Case Western
Indiana, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota,Reserve University are important sites when
and Michigan. The whole Great Lake portion of thereferring to early researches about nuclear power.
Canadian shoreline is found in Ontario. TheIn Indiana and Ohio, automobile manufacturing was
consequent geographical definition of the Greatintroduced. Automobile manufacturing was
Lakes region is the terrain area that consumescentered in Michigan's Detroit Area. The movable
into the said region.assembly line of Henry Ford became a mark in
Great Lakes are distinguished for its significantsteel industrial engineering, meat processing, and
contributions in the field of political economy,agricultural machinery manufacturing. The
culture, technology, and natural resources. Amongengineering of steel helped in revolutionizing the
the prominent contributions are the democraticmodern age of mass production build up. Two
economy and government. In addition, industrialChicago-based companies namely Sears Roebuck
production and inventions for automobileand Montgomery Ward balanced mass
manufacturing, agricultural machinery,manufacturers with a mass detail form of
transportation, as well as commercial architecturedistribution.
are considered its most prominent contributions.The contribution in modern transportation includes
Lakes hold over a fifth portion of the surfacethe early airplanes of the Wright Brothers. Other
freshwater in the world. This region has a hugepopular contributions are the Great Lake
number of mineral deposits like iron ore especiallyFreighters as well as railroad beds made of steel
in the Mesabi Range of Minnesota as well as inrails and wooden ties. The 19th century Erie Canal
Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Moreover, southernas well as the 20th century St. Lawrence Seaway
Illinois and western Pennsylvania is rich inhad expanded the engineering scale for a gigantic
anthracite coal, also a valuable mineral deposit. Thewater-born cargo.
significant abundance of coal and iron provided theEven prior to European immigration, this region
most basic materials for the largest steelhas a well-established political economy. The
production in the world during the late 19thIndians had traded with each other via the broad
century to early 20th century.network of rivers, portages, and lakes that holds
The soil here is very rich and produces largegoods in the Mexican Gulf as well as in both the
quantities of corn and cereals. The first major "oilcoasts of North America. Major exports in the
boom" in the world was hosted by Pennsylvania.region include western Pennsylvania's natural oil,
The wild rice of Minnesota and the cranberry bogscopper from the shorelines and islands near Sault
of Wisconsin continue to yield natural rations,Ste. Marie, pipestones of Minnesota, dried
which were introduced by the Indians to somecranberries and wild rice from Wisconsin.
Europeans during the 17th century.Since the industrial revolution, this region had been
In terms of technology, the region of Greatthe center for industry. Numerous American and
Lakes is home to various globally prominentCanadian companies are headquartered all over
breakthroughs in the field of agriculture. Some ofthe area.