Monday, Humid days
Thanks to Dale for covering for me on Monday. Monday trivia question. I�m looking for a name. A maker of wooden and metal scientific instruments (some with an accuracy for 10,000 years). Clocks too. American. He was known to Washington who trusted him. Franklin who went to church with him. And Jefferson thought enough of him that American standards for weights and measures were begun with his calculations. This person had no formal training and, as the story goes, had only three books and a box of a dead uncle�s joiners tools to teach himself. Yet he took on the most technical of challenges and did them better than most everyone else--worldwide. Before it was over he was accepted into the most prestigeous of scientific circles internationally. He served in the American revolution as a supervisor in the casting of cannon, ammunition, gun parts, and as a site selector of buildings, and installations for best effect. In an era where you couldn�t see twenty yards in front of you owing to forests he did borders and boundries so accurately that today his calculations are confirmed, and when present, accepted. Who was this person?