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Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

Society & Culture, History

4.5 • 8.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Enterprising individuals are always a curious bunch--even when they're a little shady or forgotten.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Air and Mankies, Captain of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grim and
0:09.0	Mild.
0:13.0	Our world is full of the unexplainable.
0:16.3	And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,
0:22.2	just waiting for us to explore.
0:25.4	Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.
0:30.0	Paul Boyton was born in Dublin, or Pittsburgh.
0:40.2	Accounts differ, but one thing everyone can agree on is that he came into the world in 1848.
0:46.3	Boyton attended college in Pennsylvania, but didn't have plans for a normal job, like
0:50.8	a lawyer or a doctor.
0:52.8	When he was only 15, he enlisted with the Union Navy to fight in the Civil War.
0:57.5	Several years later, he even saw a battle during the Franco-Prussian War.
1:02.0	Perhaps it was the sight of his wounded comrades, or maybe the navies that he had served with
1:06.2	just weren't keen on safety precautions.
1:09.1	Whatever the reason, Boyton came back home to the US where he started the United States
1:13.6	Life-Saving Service.
1:15.5	Their mission was to help rescue shipwreck sailors and their passengers, with a branch in Atlantic
1:21.0	City, New Jersey, headed by Boyton himself.
1:24.2	He took his job very seriously, too, and quickly began coming up with new ideas on how to
1:28.8	save more lives.
1:30.6	He had become fascinated with an invention by a guy named Clark S. Maryman.
1:35.4	It was called the Immersion Suit, comprised of a rubber shirt and rubber pants that were
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