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On April 26, 1956 an oil tanker customized to carry standardized metal crates left Port Newark, NJ for Houston, TX, marking the first commercially successful containerized shipment. Over the next 30 years, containerized cargo would come to dominate the shipping industry and create a new global economy. Marc Levinson, author of The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger, joins us to share the story of the shipping container and how it changed the world.
- Marc Levinson’s website
- Outside the Box: How Globalization Changed from Moving Stuff to Spreading Ideas
- WATCH past episodes on containerization
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A Brief History of Wire Rope: Re-Rigging the Peking | Virtual Program | Thursday, September 16
Climate Change Conversation with Prospect Park Alliance Forest Ecologist Howard Goldstein | Free Virtual Program | Tuesday, September 21
Elvis Has Left The Country: Pvt. Presley and the Brooklyn Army Terminal | Virtual Program | Wednesday, September 22
Olmsted, Public Health, and Urban Planning with Olmsted-Beil House | Free Virtual Program | Wednesday, September 22
