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[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 day ago

Well, various kinds of internal (to one country or to one supply chain) standards would emerge just because you need some standard. Farther removed from conflict is good, but USA became half the world GDP before WWI. In the time which is perceived like something between now and the cinematographic wild west.

Bases - yes, and in the late XIX century US was already playing the colonial game, which certainly helped its economy.

Standards - not sure really about your example, sizes - maybe (but a lot of ISO things are from British and French local standards), but 45deg is, as you might notice, not a random angle. Some things are naturally optimal.