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“The removal of soil, earth or rubbish, the conveyance of stones, sand or lime, everything is done by little four wheel carts drawn by a single horse on iron railways.. the advantage they represent is immense.  England owes to them part of her wealth.  Never without THEM could coal, iron ore, lime stone, slate and other raw materials have been conveyed such distances and nevertheless at a very trifling cost.”

We spend most of our time on the defense industries.  What is revealed is that across a large number of domains the British are world leaders or nearly so.  

So much so, that one would not expect this to be possible.  There must be an unknown variable explaining the phenomena of British superiority.