(en) « Rome, Carthage, and the Punic Wars », Meanwhile Carthage was mass producing warships. And that's not an exaggeration either about numbers or about shipbuilding methods; Carthaginian warships were built up of standard interchangeable parts. We know this not only from contemporary accounts, but also from recovered Carthaginian ships like the half of a Carthaginian ship shown in (c), above, that was recovered off the coast of Marsala at the western tip of Sicily; it was brand new when it was sunk by the Romans, and it still retains marks giving assembly instructions ("tab a into slot b", etc.) Other recovered ships had identical parts.
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(en) Henry Ford et Samuel Crowther, « Edison as I Know Him » [PDF], New York, Cosmopolitan Book Company, (consulté le ), p. 30.
