Thomas Waters Jr. Sketch of Barque Fawn (1840)
Thomas wrote this letter to his mother and father, Thomas Sr & Elizabeth Waters, shortly after he became a teenaged apprentice on the whaling ship Barque Fawn. You can faintly…
Enterprise: The First Steam Powered Vehicle (1833)
The first steam powered vehicle able to transport people was built by Walter Hancock in 1833. Just seven years later, Thomas Waters Sr. traveled in a similar vehicle from London…