Wednesday, 25 September 2019

Wind Power: How the 19th-Century’s Greatest Shipbuilder Opened the Pacific

quote [ In 1849, when word reached Ohio that gold had been discovered the year before in California, there was little to keep a young ship captain named Matthew Turner (1825-1909) close to the family homestead on the shores of Lake Erie. Eight years earlier, when Turner was just 16, his 36-year-old mother was taken by illness; in 1849, when Turner was a 24-year-old newlywed, his bride died, too. And so, in the winter of 1850, Turner bid adieu to his father, brother, and sisters and caught a Mississippi River steamboat for New Orleans. ]

Sight kept on the skyline so we become builders of ships
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[by ScoobySnacks@5:02amGMT]

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