Thomas Rickett's steam carriage mb-code AAHZ001262 Then the greatest of all

Then the greatest of all record breakers

ruling from 37 until he was assassinated in 41

Illustration from De animali electricitate

Bedroom in Arles

Flying with them is a violin

Thomas Rickett's steam carriage mb-code AAHZ001262 Then the greatest of allThomas Rickett's steam carriage, 1860 (1956). Rickett, a Birmingham maker of agricultural implements, built a steam powered plough in 1858. This prompted the Marquess of Stafford to ask him to build a steam carriage for him. A second example was ordered by James Sinclair, Earl of Caithness (one of the passengers in the photograph) in 1860. Sinclair drove the carriage 146 miles from Inverness to Barrogill Castle, north of Wick. Rickett advertised his