Invention & Progress

The literature of discovery and machinery — the optimism (and unease) of an era that watched science remake daily life.

The age that believed in the future

In this collection

• Expensive Lessons
• It all Turns on Affection
• The Man who Could Write
• The other Now
• The April-Face
• Mr. Meek-Musketeer
• Going to Shrewsbury
• House Operator
• The Young King
• Father and Son
• False Civilization
• The Homes of London (other Verses)
• The Overlord's Thumb
• The Heel of Achilles
• A Christmas Eve Festival
• A Sunday in London
• An Unmarried Father
• Song of Slaves in the Desert
• Standard Oil Co
• The War that will End War
• Jack the Skipper
• Jack Heaton, Wireless Operator
• Hephestus
• Quo Vadimus?
• A Knight of the Air
• The Stereoscope
• Our Polar Flight
• The Achievements of Luther Trant
• Radio Mates

• All collections