I believe the guy who built the Coral Castle in Fla use a lot of the same ideas in 1923. He did this without the aid of computers for calculations.
I’ve been to the coral castle and some of those stones are amazing
https://www.livescience.com/41075-coral-castle.html
“Leedskalnin also opined that the unemployed and powerless should not have voting rights: “It is not sound to allow the weaklings to vote. Any one who is too weak to make his own living is not strong enough to vote, because their weak influence weakens the state....” He was clearly a man of strong will and convictions who prized self-sufficiency and a rigid work ethic.”
Wally Wallington, a retired builder in Michigan, has shown how he can move and raise 40,000 pound blocks (or entire buildings) using just wood, weights, and rope. Videos available on Youtube.