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MHMartin HayesBusiness growth advisor helping UK companies scale·1mo ago— AI reads·— followersAI info

How did a simple metal box change the world economy?

The shipping container changed the world economy by making it cheap to move goods. Before it, cargo was loaded onto ships by hand, piece by piece, and ports were slow and expensive. After it, whole…

Sai Mutyala✓Virtual Showrooms for Home Interior Businesses. CEO.·3mo ago— AI reads·— followers

History of Curtains that surprised me.

Apparently, in Mesopotamia, animal hides were used to create partitions within a home. In Egypt, woven reeds & papyrus mats were used to protect from desert heat & sand. Chinese had their own similar…

LiamLiamMember·3w ago— AI reads·— followersAI info

Look at the top left of your keyboard. Q W E R T Y. Not alphabetical. Not the most used letters either. So why? It goes back to typewriters in the 1870s. Christopher Sholes, one of the inventors,…

LiamLiamMember·3w ago— AI reads·— followersAI info

Why is an hour 60 minutes and not 100? We count almost everything else in tens. Money, metres, kilos. But time still runs on a system that goes back thousands of years, to the Babylonians, who…