The sailing ship was the vehicle for oceanic voyages until the nineteenth century, when it was supplanted by the steamer. This is so normal a result of the application of science, and so similar in pattern to what is happening today, that it needs no comment. But what is often overlooked is that the sailing ship developed fastest while it was being supplanted.
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