With many countries’ recent productivity woes, there’s been a lot of focus lately on trying to build more transport infrastructure.| www.ageofinvention.xyz
You’re reading my newsletter, Age of Invention, on the causes of the British Industrial Revolution and the history of innovation.| www.ageofinvention.xyz
I’ve been reading more from the 1776 travel diary of Samuel More.| www.ageofinvention.xyz
The other week I was tipped off by a fellow researcher to the existence of some very interesting manuscripts in the British Library — the travel diaries of Samuel More, secretary to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.| www.ageofinvention.xyz
We don’t realize it, but the shape of our cities—from how big they are to what services they have—is mainly driven by one thing: transport technologies.| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com