Private industrial and commercial enterprises of the modern corporate era, organized for manufacturing or resource extraction rather than chartered trade or banking. Belongs here: Krupp as the defining German industrial armaments firm, Standard Oil as the defining American oil trust, and S. C. Johnson and Son as a long-running family manufacturing firm. Does not belong here: an early modern chartered trading company, filed under Chartered Trading Companies and Leagues, and a banking house, filed under Banking and Financial Houses.
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Beginning in Great Britain around 1760, the Industrial Revolution had spread to continental Europe and the United States by about 1840.
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