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#61 Malcom McLean: The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
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On April 26, 1956, a crane lifted 58 aluminum truck bodies aboard an aging tanker ship. Five days later, the Ideal X sailed into Houston, where 58 trucks waited to take on the metal boxes. David Weinberger: The value of this utilitarian object lies not in what it is, but in how it is used. Before the container, transporting goods was so expensive that it did not pay to ship many things halfway across the country.
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