Shipping In 18th And 19th Centuries

So if one tracked those colored shipping lines that did not reach their destination and ended in the middle of the sea, it would be a solid spot for a sunken ship exploration if one had not already been found in that particular location....

Interesting to note that the first major form of shipping on land which in fact was first taken advantage of by one Richard Warren Sears, when he in fact bought a large shipment of watches an sold them to another dealer at another train station for a considerable profit to other station agents an then simply repeated the process, taken advantage of the newly completed western railroad which now connected the entire country of sorts....

Later in Chicago he met one Alvah C. Roebuck an together they created the first mail order catalog of sorts that then allowed long transport of items to way out west that had never been possible before. Together they started this mail order catalog called "Sears Roebuck an company", and the rest as they say is history....

Such a cool part of American history to me that company, and one of my ALL time favorite sports scenes from a sports movie, was when one Roy Hobbs (Robert Redford) cracked that pennant securing game winning home run at the end of "The Natural", right into that Sears Roebuck an company sign and all the lights exploded....