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SUMMER SCHOOL 8: Productivity & Getting Lit
Planet Money
The Next Big Advance After Caracin
Around 1850 a guy in Canada comes up with something that's not just a slightly better wick or a slightly more efficient lamp. With the right techniques you can get it from coal or oil. This big breakthrough? Caracin. When the first caracin lamps came out it was as one historian said it was the kind of oil people had dreamed about for centuries.
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