http://www.metafilter.com/tags/kelvin Posts tagged with 'kelvin' at MetaFilter. Thu, 17 Nov 2005 15:45:44 -0800 Thu, 17 Nov 2005 15:45:44 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/46770/Edison%2D1%2DMars%2D0 <a href="http://www.cgpublishing.com/Books/Edison.html">Edison's Conquest of Mars!</a> Garrett P. Serviss' <a href="http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/sep05/1675">unofficial</a>, 1898 <a href="http://members.aol.com/taedisonjr/conquest.htm">sequel</a> to <a href="http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/warworlds/warw.html">War of the Worlds</a>, featuring Thomas Edison and Lord Kelvin as the heroes. It seems this book originated the space battle and the ray-gun, not to mention the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111282/">aliens-built-the-pyramids plot</a>. Sounds like a <a href="http://zapatopi.net/blog/?post=200511145800.edisons_conquest_of_mars">blast</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.46770 Thu, 17 Nov 2005 15:45:44 -0800 edison kelvin mars sciencefiction sequel waroftheworlds welles brundlefly