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EPISODE · Apr 7, 2025 · 3 MIN

April 7, 1775: Francis Cabot Lowell

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It’s cake and candles today for Francis Cabot Lowell, a manufacturer who helped modernize the textile industry in the United States, largely through industrial espionage: in the middle of a trade war with Europe, Lowell visited England and memorized the processes they were using so that he could bring them back to this side of […] The post April 7, 1775: Francis Cabot Lowell appeared first on 250 and Counting.

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