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On the Persistence of Old Techniques: The Case of North American Wooden Shipbuilding
Abstract
During the second half of the nineteenth century important technological changes in shipping and shipbuilding resulted in the practical disappearance of an important shipbuilding industry in North America and the concentration of most of the world's shipbuilding in Britain. This shift of shipbuilding activity was quite clearly the result of the adoption of metal in place of wood as the structural material in shipbuilding. The adoption of metal was a slow process and the old and new techniques coexisted for decades. By the mid-1850's, British shipbuilders had developed the building of iron ships to a routine process and further improved their techniques in the following decades, but wooden shipbuilding in North America remained an important industry until the mid-1880's.
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“In America, timber remained far cheaper than iron, stimulating American shipbuilders to stick with wood (Harley, 1973).”
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“This was accompanied by a substantial revision in 1863 of Lloyds Rules, reducing the insurance premiums of iron ships (Harley, 1973).”
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“Shipbuilding was radically transformed by the shift from wooden sailing ships to iron steamship. Iron ships required very different construction skills (e.g. riveting) and process techniques (e.g. heating, hammering and punching of iron). New jobs emerged on shipyards, e.g. metal workers, electricians, millwrights, engineers. Many of the new workers needed specialised tools and machines, e.g. riv”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Harley, C. K.
- Affiliations
- University of British Columbia (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Harley, C. K.
- Venue
- The Journal of Economic History
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 1973-06
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 372-398
- ISSN
- 0022-0507 (ISSN-L)
- 1471-6372
- OpenAlex
- W2108902080
- Cited by
- 40
- References
- 10
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 2 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 6.77
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Journal of Economic History (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Historical Economic and Social Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Ocean Engineering › Marine and Coastal Research
- Keywords
- wooden shipbuilding, iron ships, technological change, British shipbuilding, 19th-century shipping, shipbuilding industry decline
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