What if the Great Eastern became a success instead of a failure?

[Ethan Nelson]

What if the Great Eastern had been a successful venture which made her owners rich? Would she have influenced other ships afterward to be even bigger then they eventually became in our timeline? And how would world shipping be changed: if at all, by her success?

 

[David G. Brown]

We'll never know. History does not reveal its alternatives.

-- David G. Brown

 

[mitfrc]

"in what world would Great Eastern be a success" might be a better question to ask, because the necessary preconditions didn't exist in our's.