Und er selbst und seine Mit-Föderalisten, darunter auch John Adams, glaubten fest daran, jungen Branchen Raum zum Wachsen zu bieten – sie verwendeten sogar Gelder des Kriegsministeriums, um Experimente des damaligen „Hightech“-Sektors zu finanzieren.
And he and his Federalist colleagues, including John Adams, believed strongly in providing infant industries with room to grow – even using money from the Department of War to fund experiments in high-tech industry.