mechanization

The firm at first sought Smoot’s advice on camera mechanization that allowed for on-demand view changes for Florida’s Animal Kingdom park.

It grew well and people liked the taste — and the advances of the Industrial Revolution, including the mechanization of agriculture and the introduction of the railroad, propelled it to the fore.

John Deskins, director of the West Virginia University Bureau of Business and Economic Research, said 75% of West Virginia’s coal jobs were disappearing before coal production dropped because of mechanization.

The population drain continued as increased mechanization of farming reduced the need for farm laborers and other types of industry fled the region.

"A computer destroys the sense of historical succession, just as do other forms of mechanization," Berry wrote in the same essay.