http://www.whatsdutch.org Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:22:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.whatsdutch.org/2009/commerce-industry/ http://www.whatsdutch.org/2009/commerce-industry/#comments Sat, 01 Aug 2009 17:20:16 +0000 rickwhelan http://www.whatsdutch.org/?p=201 The Dutch – from one of the smallest countries in Europe – established a trading empire, New Netherland, in the Hudson Valley, a series of trading posts, towns, and forts up and down the Hudson River.

• New Netherland (Hudson Valley) produced immense wealth for the Dutch and other nations began to envy the riches flowing out of the Hudson River Valley.
• Netherlands/Dutch are the 4th largest investors in the United States.
• Cornelius Vanderbilt – American entrepreneur who built wealth in shipping and railroads and known as “The Commodore.”
• Jacob Westervelt, renowned and prolific shipbuilder and Mayor of New York (1853)
• Thomas Edison – businessman and inventor of devices that influenced the world – phonograph, electricity, light bulbs, principles of mass production, and the first industrial research lab – with over 1093 U.S. patents.

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