Invention & Progress: The age that believed in the future

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

In this collection

• The Caxtons Part IX
• The Earth's Name Is Juan
• Bones and the Bee
• King Coal
• The Portrait
• The Mortal Immortal
• The Crystal
• The Wage-Slaves
• Iron and Heat
• The American Crisis
• Pompey the Little
• To the Thirty-Ninth Congress
• Father and Son
• The Invisible Force
• Ragged Dick
• In the "Old South. "
• Characters: Miss Evans and the Eagle
• The Country of Cockaigne
• The Six Fingers of Time
• The Manchester Marriage
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