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549. The First Great American Industry
Freakonomics Radio
The History of Nantucket Whale Oil
The streets of Europe were lit with Nantucket whale oil. It was lubricating the machines of the emerging industrial age. Ralph Waldo Emerson would visit Nantucket during one of his lecture tours and record in his diary, Nation of Nantucket makes its own war and peace. People really did look to the island as its own kind of exemplar nation within a nation.
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