Transport
The steam boats that destroyed their own canals
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Before railways ruined their monopoly, British canal operators fought back with 'steam packet boats.' These aggressively fast steamships ripped through the Leeds and Liverpool Canal to beat train times, completely ignoring that their violent wake was rapidly eroding the shoreline and destroying the very infrastructure they floated on.
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