Washington Gladden's ideas would most closely be tied to the period in U.S. history that begins just after the Civil War and leads into Reconstruction.
<span>Portrait photography in the 1860's took roughly 10-20 minutes. These are as stated, portraits, movement and objects in motion could not be captured. Daguerreotypes took 60-90 seconds to capture the image.</span>
The start of the American Industrial Revolution<span> is often attributed to Samuel Slater who opened the first </span>industrial<span> mill in the United States in 1790 with a design that borrowed heavily from a British model. Slater's pirated technology greatly increased the speed with which cotton thread could be spun into yarn.</span>