Private enterprises—both local and foreign—have turn out to be major forces equally for the advantages of new technology and for cultivating domestic technological innovation. The production and even export of Yucatán henequen fiber extended rapidly in the particular 1880s. Equipment regarding stripping the fibers was invented in the Yucatán, but…

All these types of products offered domestic alternatives to products that had in the past been imported by the Middle or Far East. Meanwhile, techniques for quicksilvering mirrors and the introduction of oil paints that could capture spectacular lighting effects provided new adornments. The preceding survey features shown how technical…