The Latent Heat of Iron
Cornelius van der Meer stood at the window of his office on the fourth floor of the Van der Meer Shipping and Rail Trust Building on Wall Street, watching the winter rain turn to sleet against the glass. The year was 1882, and he was fifty-three years old, with a fortune that the newspapers estimated at forty-seven million dollars and a face that the caricaturists drew as a granite cliff with...
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