The Most Brilliant Invention Of The 20th Century Was The Shipping Container
February 27, 2022 at 08:30 AM EST
Malcolm McLean may be the most important person you’ve never heard of. His claim to fame? Inventing a box. But not just any box. McLean—a high school-educated truck driver from North Carolina—came up with the idea of creating a series of standardized, intermodal steel containers that could neatly...