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July 2nd, 2018: Toy Boat Toy Boat Toy Boat
What’s a teen to do while locked up in an 1870 British asylum? Build a toy boat, toy boat, toy boat.
Sounds like he might have come from a wealthy family to support this activity.
| Confined since age 15 in Surrey’s Earlswood Asylum, autistic savant James Henry Pullen spent seven years building a 10-foot replica of the iron steamship Great Eastern. Completed in 1877, it included brass anchors, copper paddles, 13 lifeboats, hundreds of individually molded planks, 5,585 rivets, and more than 1 million wooden pins made in a specially constructed pin mill. The upper deck could be hoisted to reveal state cabins and furniture inside. |
| It’s now on display at the Museum at the Langdon Down Centre in Teddington. |
Griff Monday Jul 2 07:49 AM
Good lord...
newtimer Monday Jul 2 03:09 PM
All those sails AND a big engine?
Gravdigr Monday Jul 2 03:18 PM
Side wheeler!
Gravdigr Monday Jul 2 03:19 PM
1,000,000 pins sounds like a lot of pins for a ten foot model.
xoxoxoBruce Monday Jul 2 04:07 PM
Two boilers for the side wheels, three boilers for the screw props, plus nine sails.
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