Welcome to Erin Mankie'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.

Everyone has a dream.

When you're young, it might be to become an astronaut or a firefighter or to play in a rock

band in front of thousands of screaming fans.

We live with our heads in the clouds because we don't want to face what's waiting back

for us on Earth.

Reality.

Reality has a nasty way of knocking down our dreams, sometimes for good.

But not for Albrecht Berblinger.

Whenever his dreams were swatted out of the sky, he simply aimed higher.

Albrecht Berblinger, let's call him Al, for short, was born in the city of Ulm in 1770

in the kingdom of Prussia, now part of Germany.

The youngest of seven children, Al's parents were poor.

His father worked in the city's armory, which Al would often visit when he was younger.

As a result, he got a good look at the kinds of tools and machines that his father worked

with.

They might have been the inspiration for Al's dream of becoming a watchmaker.

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