Coatings update:the paint industry and computers

It is an interesting point that the United States is no longer an industrialised economy. Economies are characterised traditionally by what people do in them. If most of the people raise food, then the economy is called agrarian or agricultural. The United States certainly started out as an agrarian economy and continued that way for many years. Eventually, however, agriculture became highly sophisticated. The net result of this sophistication was that it did not take very many people to grow all the food needed in the United States; and today well under five per cent of the population in the United States grows all the food we need as well as a twenty plus per cent excess which is exported. What happened to all the farmers? They went to work in industry which started to develop rapidly after the Civil War. Very soon the United States became an industrialised economy because most of the labourers who had once been farmers were employed in factories.