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From what I can find on line, Frederic Tudor sounds like the classic yankee success story of perseverence in the face of difficulties.
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/scienceandnature/0,6121,650835,00.html
"If you are looking for a classic example of the most particularly American virtue - commercial ingenuity boosted by extraordinary perseverance - then Frederic Tudor is your paradigm. ... Tudor's problem was getting the stuff (ice) from here to there without meltdown in transit ... Doggedly, Tudor tried one form of insulation after another ...
The ultimate triumph came 32 years after the brainwave first struck ... until 1849 he was perpetually in debt, narrowly escaping imprisonment for unpaid bills and enduring a nervous breakdown on the way. Competitors entered the market and he could only beat them off by undercutting them, which was not an invariably successful strategy. There were other, non-commercial, forms of hostility, as well as much ridicule. Thoreau was scathing when Tudor started cutting ice from Walden Pond"
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