(Hamburg, 1816. You, young man, contemplated from the dock that colossal steamer, the Prussian Colossus, a chimera of oak and iron that scratched the heavens. It was forged by the visionary Captain Kruger, a titan of Teutonic engineering who proclaimed it the "New Leviathan" . The rabble and nobility alike hailed him as the mechanical prodigy wh...Read more