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We measure technological progress in oceanic shipping by using a large database of daily log entries from ships of the …
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We measure technological progress in oceanic shipping by using a large database of daily log entries from ships of the …
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We measure technological progress in oceanic shipping directly by using a large database of daily log entries from … allowed a greater area of sail to be set safely in a given wind. By contrast, looking at every voyage between the Netherlands …
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Shipping was central to the rise of the Atlantic economies, but an extremely hazardous activity: in the 1780s, roughly … shipping technology was stagnant before iron steamships, in this paper we demonstrate that between the 1780s and 1820s, a … safety revolution occurred that saw shipping losses and insurance rates on oceanic routes almost halved thanks to steady …
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