USA

Samuel Slater, an emigrant from Derbyshire, built the first successful water powered cotton spinning mill in America at Pawtucket,...

Francis Cabot Lowells mill at Waltham, Massachusetts, first to combine carding, spinning, and weaving under one roof, all powered ...

Brick mill courtyard at Lowell, Massachusetts, heart of the Lowell system that employed thousands of young women, the mill girls, ...

Fords first purpose built factory, a plain three storey Detroit brick plant where the Model T was designed and first assembled in ...

Birthplace of the moving assembly line, 1913, where chassis assembly time collapsed from over 12 hours to about 93 minutes. Albert...

Fords colossal vertically integrated complex where lake freighters delivered ore that became steel, glass, tires, and finally cars...

Built as a General Motors plant and later run as NUMMI, the GM and Toyota joint venture that taught lean production in America. Te...

A battery megafactory with Panasonic in the Nevada desert, planned as one of the largest buildings on earth. It mass produces 2170...

The largest building in the world by volume at roughly 13 million cubic meters, built to assemble the 747 jumbo jet. It has produc...

Ford plant that applied auto mass production to aircraft, turning out B-24 Liberator bombers at a peak rate of roughly one per hou...

Home of the famous Skunk Works founded by Kelly Johnson in 1943. The P-38 Lightning, U-2 spyplane, SR-71 Blackbird, and F-117 stea...

A 43 acre factory floor near New Orleans where the giant first stages of the Saturn V Moon rockets were welded and stacked, then e...

Western Electrics colossal telephone equipment plant in Cicero, Illinois, with over 40,000 workers at its peak. The Hawthorne expe...

The Edison Machine Works moved here in 1886 and grew into General Electric. For a century Schenectady turned out steam turbines, g...

Carnegie Steels flagship on the Monongahela and site of the 1892 Homestead strike, the bloody battle between Pinkerton agents and ...

Once the second largest steelmaker in America, its beams raised the skyscrapers of New York and the Golden Gate Bridge, and its ya...

Milton Hershey placed his milk chocolate plant in Pennsylvania dairy country and built an entire town with it, with streets named ...

Henry J Heinz grew from horseradish peddled from a garden into a global condiment empire headquartered on Pittsburgh North Side, i...

W K Kellogg turned Sanitarium health food experiments into the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company in 1906. The plant made bre...

Founded by railroad baron Collis Potter Huntington on the James River. The sole builder of United States Navy nuclear aircraft car...

National shipyard that built and outfitted warships from the age of sail through the Iowa class battleships. Decommissioned in 196...

The first national armory of the United States, established by Washington. Here interchangeable parts musket production matured in...

Second national armory, at the meeting of the Potomac and Shenandoah, where John Hall pioneered interchangeable rifle parts in the...

Upstate New York glass maker that blew the first practical bulbs for Edison in 1879, cast the 200 inch mirror blank for the Paloma...

Herbert Dow cracked the chemistry of brine wells in Michigan and built a company town scale plant around chlorine products. Midlan...

Eleuthere Irenee du Pont, a student of Lavoisier, built water powered black powder mills along the Brandywine. The family firm gre...

George Eastmans film works grew into one of the largest chemical plants in the world, its own streets, rail, and power, coating fi...

George Pullmans railcar factory inside a planned company town on Chicago South Side, complete with brick fronts, a hotel, and rent...

Matthias Baldwin built a small engine in a Philadelphia shop and grew the most prolific steam locomotive builder in America, tens ...

The South Carolina factory that builds BMW X series sport utility vehicles for the world. Opened in 1994 as BMW first full product...

Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, the first wholly owned Toyota car plant in the United States and its largest vehicle factory ...

A wartime plant on the south shore of Lake Washington that built B-29 Superfortress bombers in the Second World War. It later roll...

A tidewater steel complex on Chesapeake Bay near Baltimore, founded by Pennsylvania Steel and bought by Bethlehem Steel in 1916. B...

United States Steel built this integrated mill on the southern shore of Lake Michigan and founded the city of Gary, Indiana, aroun...

The flagship brewery in the Soulard district of St. Louis, rooted in the Bavarian Brewery that Eberhard Anheuser took over around ...