| Imported technology from Europe was the seed for American technology. As the timbered land of Minnesota succumbed to the ravages of the lumbering and mining industries, the prairies were plowed into farms, and communities of many shapes and sizes evolved; those strategically located grew into cities and, eventually, urban complexes. Budding, and eventually exploding technologies, with all their blessings, were ravenous agents for change in every corner of the young State of Minnesota. In 1900, 1.7 million people called Minnesota home. By the mid-1980s, that number had risen to 4.2 million, with half of that total living in the metropolitan area of the Twin Cities. |
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Impact of Technology
Advertisement for Russell “Bull Dozer”
or “Marsh Filler,” ca. 1920
Minnesota Historical Society
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