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Will Alverson
@will_alverson
Steel industrialist, insurance media founder, senate energy policy advisor | Growing @accuratemetals & @InsNerds | @uofdenver @mit
Jul 8 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Next week @reindsummit meets in Detroit, and the setting is no accident

Lake Michigan and the rest of the Great Lakes have powered American industry for 150 years and they are still a quiet engine behind any new hard tech revival.

A history thread 🧵 Image Start with iron.

In 1844 surveyors struck rich ore in Michigan’s Marquette Iron Range. By the 1850s ore was moving by rail to Lake Superior docks and soon into the lower lakes.

The Midwest industrial supply chain was established. Image