How an American naval officer cut weeks off the ocean voyages in the 1840's

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1/x In the 1840s, a lame American naval officer, grounded at a desk in Washington, cut weeks off the world's ocean voyages without inventing a single machine. His raw material: a warehouse of logbooks nobody had ever…

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rmason8 days ago

Over a hundred years before the database was invented this guy created it manually from ships logs and the data within proved magical. But years later he chose the wrong side in the civil war and isn't as well known as he probably should be.

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