At the start of the Civil War, James B. Eads built a fleet of gunboats of a type never before imagined, with only rough sketches to guide him, from scratch—in two months
Prominent medical, legal, and technical minds in New York and New Jersey spent four years figuring out how to do it. The result was not exactly a triumph.
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