I'm not asking along the lines of the usual "this isn't tech" - It's just nothing jumps out at me about the article. Can someone explain the significance?
There is a big deal made of this in "The Men Who Built America" [1] which I started watching because it came up on Netflix. Maybe it is new there and people have started watching it<p>[1] <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2167393/" rel="nofollow">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2167393/</a>