Read this book, it was published in 1908.
https://archive.org/details/ironhee00lond/mode/2up
This book is from 1887.
https://archive.org/details/lookingbackward01bellgoog
What is being done to us today was planned long ago.
Have you ever heard of these books?
if I've heard more I've read so many books I don't know where to start.
One step at a time.
If you are starting from zero, I would start by collecting junk to make things out of, then make things out of it.
Exactly my friend, that's how it's done.