British trade in the 1700-1800s was a big deal too. Didn't mean people made money from the bubble company. Few revolutiinary technologies generate sizeable ret

British trade in the 1700-1800s was a big deal too. Didn't mean people made money from the bubble company. Few revolutiinary technologies generate sizeable returns overall. Railroads and airplanes are a classic example of technologies that changed the world and produced poor-to-negative returns.