And The World Did Not Beat A Path To His Door

4,400 attempts at a solved problem

Beautiful and Impossible

Draftsmanship in service of designs that could not be manufactured at any price anyone would pay.

Patent drawing of a triangular wire-mesh animal trap shown flat and open in Figure 1, with labeled sides B, B', B2, base A, bait holder H, and spring mechanism, and shown folded into a closed pyramidal cage in Figure 2 with cords F and F' running to a distant anchor stake D.ANIMAL-TRAPSamuel Phillips Verner · October 14, 1913