First, it allowed for businesses to find new ways to do old tasks and do them more efficiently. It also developed communication and transportation, making it easier for businesses to reach their consumers. By creating new jobs and getting more workers into the American work force, technology helped add to the already expanding American economy. Business leaders known as "robber barons" and "captains of industry" were harnessing this newly emerging technology and using it in their businesses. The Gilded Age was a time where there was great changes and developments in technology
