Thomas Augustus was born in Salem, Massachusetts back in 1854. Sorry I don’t have any more information about his childhood. I can tell you he worked as a bookkeeper and a carpenter before working with Charles Williams at a machine shop in Boston.
Subsequently he was hired by a professor at Boston University where he helped him with some of his inventions. He resigned in 1881, when he became a fairly successful traveling Shakespearean actor. In 1883, he began building naval destroyers and by 1901was one of the largest shipyards in America. His company was sold to Bethlehem Steel Corporation after WWII. He died in 1934 as Pass-Grille Key, Florida.
What you may not know about Thomas Augustus is that for what he will be written in the history books for. The professor he worked for was Alexander Graham Bell. He was the first person to receive a telephone call from Mr. Bell “Mr. Watson-Come here-I want to see you.” He also was the first person to receive the first transcontinental telephone call from Mr. Bell.
Until tomorrow give someone the free gift of a smile.
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