The cache IS NOT at the posted coordinates.
I love almost everything about Germany and am proud of my German roots so I figured I would recreate a series of caches I did in Germany here in NE Ohio. I hope you enjoy them as much as the Germans did.
Each of the people in this series were Made (born) in Germany. Later in life they immigrated to the USA and became citizens of America. Many of them had a great influence on the USA and the rest of the world. I hope that each person who completes this series learns a little bit more about how our two countries, German and The United States of America, are forever connected. So here we go! See if you can figure out who this person is or was.
To solve the mystery you need to determine the person and their year of birth and death.
HINTS
I am a man.
I was born in Bavaria
I am dead
Don't know yet?
My parents died when I was still a child. My mother died in October 1886 and my father only five months later in February 1887.
In 1887, while living with my grandparents in Ansbach, I began to learn book binding but quit and began to learn how to be a metal worker. But I quit this also and left Ansbach.
I arrived in the USA in 1893.
My main interest in life was extremely rare during my lifetime but it occurs thousands of times a day all over the world
Still don't know who I am?
On 14 August 1901 I did something that no other human had ever done.
From 1901 to 1904 I continued to improve on my machine and techniques.
In 1903, in North Carolina, two brothers from Ohio got credit for being the first at something that really I was first at.
I died in Bridgeport Connecticut of a heart attack in October 1927 while attempting to lift an automobile engine from a car.
Final Hints.
In 1985, in the USA, a reproduction of the 21st machine I created was completed.
In 1998, in Germany, a reproduction of the 21st machine I created was completed.
The reproduced machine now sits in a museum in my Bavarian hometown. The museum has my German name.
Ohio's motto is the birthplace of what I did but it's actually New York where I did it first.
You can find the final at:
N 41 (46.894 - Year of Birth)
W 81 (10.652 + Year of Death)
All the caches in this series
