History & Area Studies / World History / American History
He Cashed Out $50M in 1929, Then Built a Secret Science Lab That Won WWII
In 1929, while Wall Street burned, one man cashed out $50 million and retreated to a stone castle in Tuxedo Park. There, Alfred Lee Loomis—a lawyer-turned-tycoon—built a secret laboratory where Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, and other geniuses gathered. This isn't fiction. Jennet Conant's book 'Tuxedo Park' reveals how Loomis transformed his fortune into a private war machine. From inventing the first radar gun hidden in a diaper truck, to developing the Loran navigation system that guided Allied planes home, to kick-starting the Manhattan Project, Loomis was the invisible billionaire who changed the course of WWII. But unlike today’s tech oligarchs, he walked away and burnt every page of his legacy. Watch to uncover the astonishing true story of the last great amateur scientist, whose secret lab won the war—then vanished.
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