Batman was born in the Bronx in a spot where the famous mystery writer Edgar Allen Poe once lived. Buffalo Forge made one of the worst decisions in business history when it decided to get out of the air conditioning business and let employee and inventor Willis Carrier go. How an ex-captain of the French military wearing just his old uniform came to New York and basically designed America. Even Rough Rider Teddy Roosevelt was appalled as president. The teddy bear was born in Brooklyn but the racial back story behind its creation that took place in Mississippi is mind-blowing in its intensity. The guy who wrote the rule-book for baseball was a New Yorker and his name wasn’t Doubleday. There’s a direct line that runs from the often mysterious inventor Nikola Tesla to Donald Trump. George Eastman who founded Kodak was a real mommy’s boy.
The first submarine was built in New York and funded by Irish rebels who planned to use it to blow up British ships. Oppenheimer called her the “authority on beta decay.” She came up with the process that turned a simple bomb into an atomic bomb. The woman called The Dragon Lady and the Queen of Nuclear Research stayed in New York City. But not everyone who was mission-critical went. There were 10 top-secret sites around New York City that employed 5,000 people before someone realized that playing with uranium in the Big Apple was potentially disastrous so they decamped to Los Alamos. They didn’t call it the Manhattan Project for nothing. Here’s a few of the things that astonished me in writing this book: From the first brassiere to the life-saving pace maker, and from a solar lantern to the first mass-produced camera, New York has been the seedbed of life-changing technologies that have altered how we live. All were visionaries and risk-takers who were willing to put their lives on the line if necessary. Some became famous others struggled for recognition. Like many New Yorkers, some came from elsewhere to find success while others were home-grown. The list of inventions developed in New York is a long one so I have chosen only the inventions that are relevant today. MADE IN NEW YORK tells the story behind the inventions and innovations that were made in New York and went everywhere.
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