Fits with lecture 13?

http://app.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/73212b74-c1ba-11e4-8b74-00144feab7de.html

A trace of the 2nd global economy disappears

The company that built this network (and then underwent many corporate changes after that) finally goes out of business after being bought and folded into an American telecoms firm:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_%26_Wireless_plc#/media/File%3A1901_Eastern_Telegraph_cables.png

The heartland of the 2nd global economy still showing 100 years later.

Energy transformations at the root meant a long-lasting pattern:

https://mobile.twitter.com/tingilinde/status/649920619077861376/photo/1

2nd global economy as 1870 instead of my 1880 argument

http://equitablegrowth.org/todays-economic-history-1870-inflection-point-trade-transport/

And further on that info economy argument.

https://mobile.twitter.com/asymco/status/616703443273564160

Related to my argument tonight about the roots of the information economy!

https://mobile.twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/638375036152250372

The global economy before the American connection

(Not sure this link will work for everybody. If anybody finds a workaround, let me know.)

The story of an import so prized, royals were literally rolling in it Read the full story

I think this is the case as well with different historical narratives of the same time period

https://mobile.twitter.com/rjs/status/661335455120527360