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The Technologists Book

Spring 1868 and the population of Boston is being terrorised by technological attacks: first a magnetic storm causes ships in the harbour to collide in flames then in another bizarre catastrophe every piece of glass in the financial district spontaneously melts - clocks windows eyeglasses. Nothing in nature can do this: these are man-made disasters. Someone has unleashed the destructive potential of science on an innocent population. The city's fate relies on four young students of the recently founded Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Marcus Mansfield a Civil War veteran determined to repay MIT's founder for taking a chance on him brash Bob Richards meticulous Edwin Hoyt and the eccentric but brilliant Ellen Swallow the first woman at MIT who experiments secretly in a basement laboratory. Together they are "The Technologists". In a climate of rising hysteria these four courageous individuals must unite against the forces of darkness to uncover the mastermind before he can stage his greatest outrage.Read More

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    Spring 1868, and the population of Boston is being terrorised by technological attacks: first a magnetic storm causes ships in the harbour to collide in flames, then in another bizarre catastrophe every piece of glass in the financial district spontaneously melts - clocks, windows, eyeglasses. Nothing in nature can do this: these are man-made disasters. Someone has unleashed the destructive potential of science on an innocent population. The city's fate relies on four young students of the recently founded Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Marcus Mansfield, a Civil War veteran determined to repay MIT's founder for taking a chance on him, brash Bob Richards, meticulous Edwin Hoyt and the eccentric but brilliant Ellen Swallow, the first woman at MIT, who experiments secretly in a basement laboratory. Together, they are The Technologists. In a climate of rising hysteria, these four courageous individuals must unite against the forces of darkness to uncover the mastermind before he can stage his greatest outrage.

  • 1846550866
  • 9781846550867
  • Matthew Pearl
  • 23 February 2012
  • Harvill Secker
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 496
  • First Edition
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