Today I spent studying the history of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. My favorite story to came up in reading on the subject was of a Swedish engineer named, John Ericsson. According to some he mastered Euclidian Geometry by age 10. The Wikipedia site explains him less in tall-tale terms but even so it's clear he was a gifted engineer. His talents built the USS Monitor which was built in 100 days. The way he built it so quickly was by doing something that hadn't been done in those days… he outsourced production to a number of different iron producers and then had the ship assembled in Greenpoint. There's a really fantastic statute of him in a park. You'll want to come on the tour to see it ;)
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