High-quality black-and-white photographs of large old machines and tools

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They had those operating in 1910 and it never occurred to them that, if the cargo was in similar sized boxes they could unload them to trucks/trains much more quickly. It took 46 years and a world war before that simplicity was "discovered".

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Not to mention the fact that the Greeks and Romans were doing containerized (amphora-ized) shipping two millenia before that.