...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? ... ...aeroplanes of an improved pattern in 1950, or that there will be a through railway connection between Constantinople and Bombay and between Baku and B... ...er-than-air flying machine actually in the air. There were articles in the monthly magazines of those days proving that flying was impossible. One of ... ...ons” in 1900) of trench warfare, and of a deadlock almost exactly upon the lines of the situation after the battle of the Marne. And he was fortunate ... ... phrases a dream? Is it already proven a dream? Or can we read between the lines of the war news, diplomatic disputations, threats and accusations, po... ...d—as they should have been prepared when the Germans built their strategic railways— with trenches and gun emplacements and secondary and ter- tiary l... ...Bel- 19 H G Wells gium, out of the north of France, and for rather over a month there was a loose mobile war—as if Bloch had never existed. The Germa... ...s a paradise of ancient usuries; everywhere were great houses and enclosed parks; the multitude of gentlemen’s servants and golf clubs and such like e... ...a new period of security, cheapness and low interest, a restoration of the park, the enclosure, the gold stan- dard and the big automobile, with only ...

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...The World Set Free by H.G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The World Set Fr... ...editionary Force were all justified before the book had been published six months. And the opening section of Chapter the Second remains now, after th... ...here was strength to borrow and use…. Then suddenly man woke up to it, the railways spread like a network over the globe, the ever enlarging iron stea... ...a city for a year, fight a fleet of battleships, or drive one of our giant liners across the Atlantic; but we should also have a clue that would enabl... ...at down at a little table outside the County Council house of Golders Hill Park and sent one of the waiters to the Bull and Bush for a couple of bottl... ...uction of gold from bismuth and the realisation al- beit upon unprofitable lines of the alchemist’s dreams; there was a considerable amount of discuss... ... an equal speed atomic engines of various types invaded industrialism. The railways paid enormous premi- ums for priority in the delivery of atomic tr... ...y flew over the Channel Isles and Touraine, he mentions, and circled about Mont Blanc—’These new helicopters, we found,’ he notes, ‘had abolished all ... ...e been confused, but it is highly probable that the formation of an aerial park in this region, from which attacks could be made upon the vast industr...

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