American business: infrastructure.

The Wilderness Road was the major route for more than 200,000 people migrating west, at about the time the United States wascoming into being.

Turnpikes, combined with other types of roads, provide a reliable, networked way to move goods fromone location to another...

The transcontinental railroad facilitated U.S. trade with Asia and allowed for the development of the resources of the West and movement of settlers to its land.

The cable reduced communication time between North America and Europe, two of the most important regions in the global economy, from days to mere seconds.

The North American colonies’ first regularly scheduled stagecoach line helped New Jersey residents market their products, provided a vital link on the route between New York City and Philadelphia...

Railroads were the formof transport that revolutionized American business.

The canal allowed the United States to transport goods in ships fromthe East Coast to Asia easily and efficiently, opening up new markets and creating profit for manufacturers, shippers, and the canal operators.

During the early twentieth century, a growing automotive industry demanded better roads, which in turn resulted in enormous increases in the production of motor vehicles.

The Erie Canal allowed goods to be shipped between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean faster and cheaper than by mule-drawn carts.

Pure water is essential for human health and the functioning of many businesses, and throughout American history aqueducts have been built to supply water to agricultural areas and to large urban areas, such as New York and Los Angeles.

One of the first toll-free highways in the United States, the Cumberland Road offered Americans overland passage and access to new markets.

All aspects of American business require locations at which businesspeople can work and the means to travel among these locations.

Clay’s system helped define the nature and drive the development of U.S. business from the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries.

Canals opened the American frontier, creating new markets for eastern factories and providing access to the raw materials in the Midwest.

Bridges are important to commerce in that they permit travel by roadway over otherwise impassable bodies of water, thus making trading easier and faster.

Since its establishment by Congress in 1802, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has played an important role in the growth and sustainability of American business.

The pipeline across Alaska was one of the most ambitious and debated construction efforts mounted by private industry in American history.