A Pinch More Productive
Posted in Fun Facts, Standards of Living on Jan 6th, 2010
I was perusing the U.S. Geological Survey publications and came across this: At the time of the U.S. Civil War, 3,000 workers produced over 225,000 tons of salt in the United States. Today, there is a third more workers, but they produce 100 times more salt. In other words, each salt worker in 1865 was […]
