New technologies showing America's emerging industrial greatness were refined in the Civil War. Some of these technologies were the railroad, the steamboat, the telegraph, and the steam-powered printing press

Technology

The Civil War was a time of social and political upheaval. It was also a time of great technological change.

Even more important were the technologies that did not specifically have to do with the war, such as the railroad and the telegraph.

Economy during the Civil War by Mariah Williams