[SKRIVA] Första realistiska atombombsskildringen, från 1914

From: Ahrvid <ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 18:11:07 +0100

http://io9.com/the-lawyer-and-the-scientist-who-predicted-the-atomic-b-1493031501
"A far more accurate picture of an atomic blast appeared in an obscure story 
serialized the same year in Saturday Evening Post (November 14-November 18) and 
published as a book in 1915.
  The Man Who Rocked the Earth was written by an unusual team of authors. One 
was Arthur Train, the creator of a series of wildly popular detective and 
mystery novels. As a lawyer-turned-mystery author ...

  In creating the latter he turned for help to a pre-eminent scientists of his 
day, Robert Wood. Hardly a household word today, he was a scientist whose 
researches in many areas are still important, especially his work in optics and 
spectroscopy. In 1897, he became the first to observe field emission ...

  In their story, a mad scientist named Pax demonstrates his power by 
detonating a nuclear device in the Atlas Mountains of Africa. A gunboat 
attempts to shoot down his flying machine ...

  Unlike Wells who mumbled about oxidizing an imaginary element called 
"Carolinium," Train and Wood explicitly used uranium, which they had release 
its energy instantaneously. The resulting atomic blast itself was devastating 
enough, but Train and Wood trumped Wells totally in describing the physical 
aftereffects of the explosion".



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[SKRIVA] Första realistiska atombombsskildringen, från 1914

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