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oapen-20.500.12657-748332023-08-03T17:59:41Z Chapter Ships, shipping, technological change and global economic growth, 1400-1800 Unger, Richard W. macroinvention full-rigged ship general purpose technology shipbuilding spillover bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology The major breakthrough in ship design around 1400 creating the full-rigged ship constituted a general purpose technology. It had far-reaching effects on shipping, trade volume, orientation of trade routes, location of production, settlement patterns and many other aspects of life throughout the globe from 1400 to1800. The greater efficiency of the type in a number of uses led to its dissemination, to a limited degree, throughout the world. Spillovers from the success of the design were extensive and included for example a literature on designing and building ships, improvements in navigation and in government practices. Advances in shipbuilding were one of the very few technologies in the period that qualified as a technological advance with massive consequences. 2023-08-03T15:03:17Z 2023-08-03T15:03:17Z 2023 chapter ONIX_20230803_9791221500929_29 9791221500929 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/74833 eng Datini Studies in Economic History application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 9791221500929-22.pdf https://books.fupress.com/doi/capitoli/979-12-215-0092-9_22 Firenze University Press L’economia della conoscenza: innovazione, produttività e crescita economica nei secoli XIII-XVIII / The knowledge economy: innovation, productivity and economic growth, 13th to 18th century 10.36253/979-12-215-0092-9.22 10.36253/979-12-215-0092-9.22 bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870 9f9bbbdd-c500-4575-9865-db2693689bc1 9791221500929 3 21 Florence open access
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The major breakthrough in ship design around 1400 creating the full-rigged ship constituted a general purpose technology. It had far-reaching effects on shipping, trade volume, orientation of trade routes, location of production, settlement patterns and many other aspects of life throughout the globe from 1400 to1800. The greater efficiency of the type in a number of uses led to its dissemination, to a limited degree, throughout the world. Spillovers from the success of the design were extensive and included for example a literature on designing and building ships, improvements in navigation and in government practices. Advances in shipbuilding were one of the very few technologies in the period that qualified as a technological advance with massive consequences.
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