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The seeds of stationary pastoralism were sown millennia before when northern Europeans evolved a form of lactase persistence, alongside their _bos taurus_ cows evolving new milk proteins: See https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2011/05/lactase-persistence-and-quasi.html … /5pic.twitter.com/RCnzYcTMLs
The spread of hay meadows & fodder fields gave rise to the use of horses in draft. Pulled the same loads as oxen but twice as fast. The biggest breeds pulled even heavier loads & brought the heavy fuels & parts of the industrial revolution together: https://youtu.be/ss1xoOdhU-c?t=269 … /6
Victorians had specialized markets where consumers bought freshly butchered beef. They were often veritable palaces. Here's the Smithfield meat market in London:pic.twitter.com/HEisGC04zE
The Walloon region of Belgium was the first region in Continental Europe to industrialize. Bred in the hay hinterlands of Wallonia were the Belgian and Ardennes heavy draft horses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_horse … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardennes_horse …pic.twitter.com/lTSrjM0XVz
The rise of river navigations & canals followed on the rise of the draft horse during 17-19th centrs. Bucolic haulage: https://youtu.be/7MXidB7V9Ik Many tunnels & aqueducts were built from horse-hauled brick & stone, for example the Barton Aqueduct on the Bridgewater Canal, 1760s. /9pic.twitter.com/kxcTyFNrHN
Ore or stone was hoisted from mines & quarries by horse-powered gins: https://blogs.uakron.edu/cap/quarry-tools/ … Here a gin powers an 18th cent. innovation for grain agriculture, the threshing machine, via an axle bent through a Hooke universal joint: https://youtu.be/FW65z0elWb4// /10pic.twitter.com/MK7j8FtsUk
More info on stationary pastoralism, & the ag & transport revolutions based on it that enabled the industrial revolution & escape from the Malthusian trap: https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2014/10/transportation-divergence-and.html … https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2010/09/malthusian-mystery.html … https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2010/10/malthus-and-capital.html … https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2011/06/trotting-ahead-of-malthus.html … https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2011/05/lactase-persistence-and-quasi.html … /12
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