This book is just fascinating (and well written). Prior to the container standardization on ships, moving things across the globe was expensive and uncertain (damage, etc). And all this occurred in the late ‘50s - much later than I thought. https://amzn.to/36dTddB
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The Roots of Progress Retweeted Jason Crawford
Yup, it's a good book! I did a thread on it here:https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1186410610868674560 …
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I haven't had a chance to blog about it yet, but a book I enjoyed was *The Box*, a history of containerization in the shipping industry: https://rootsofprogress.org/books/the-box
I recently cited containerization as the most recent very low-tech but very high-impact industrial development.
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