Welcome to AirNManky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

A regular at the station, he had witnessed the scene before.

Hundreds of Union soldiers marched to the train station in Indianapolis, ready to serve

the north in the Civil War.

As those trains would depart, others would arrive, this time full of the dead, the dine,

and the seriously injured.

There had to be a better way, he often thought.

If fewer men went off to fight, there would be less death and fewer men returning with

such serious injuries.

Equally horrific, he noticed more men died from disease than gunshots.

Wars in his opinion were futile.

Perhaps the answer was to create something so formidable that maybe wars wouldn't be fought

at all.

He'd been inventing practically all his life.

His first foray into engineering had been while working with his father, processing

cotton in his home state of North Carolina.

Later he'd improved on cotton thinning machines.

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