Part I Makers in Metal
On a clear, cold New England night in late 1807, those Yankees who were looking skyward observed a display of meteors unlike any they had ever seen. Not only were the heavenly streaks exceptionally bright, but they were noisy as well. Witnesses said they crossed the sky making a sound like “cannonballs being rolled on a wooden floor.”
These were big meteors; in fact, some of them were large enough to enter the atmosphere and land without burning up. Meteorites fell upon large areas of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont. This was world-changing stuff, because prior to this, no one had ever considered that some ...
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