Author: David McCullough

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• Ben Bova (1)
  • IN: Power Play (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In the nineteenth century, a German-born engineer named John Fritz, working at the Cambria Iron Company in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, captured the [can-do] spirit when, after working for months to finish the first Bessemer steel machinery in this country, he came to the plant one morning and said, “Alright, boys, let’s start her up and see why she doesn’t work.” The desire to find out what’s not working, fix it, and then maybe get it to work is an American quality and our guiding star.
    FROM: American Heritage, (2008), NULL, US