Explorations: Wheeling and Dealing: Eighteenth century ships as factories
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Background to Channel 4 'The Day the World Took Off', shown in 2000. With thanks to Windfall Films.
Simon Schaffer, on the gun-deck of an eighteenth century British warship, describes how it was the largest and most complex factory on earth, taking more than 2000 oak trees to construct and employing hundreds of skilled men. He then describes the search for useful plants and their transportation all over the world by the British, including tea, sugar and rubber. |
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| Created: | 2018-03-08 17:21 |
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| Collection: | A History of the World (The Day the World Took Off) |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Prof Alan Macfarlane |
| Language: | eng (English) |
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