Astounding Wonder : : Imagining Science and Science Fiction in Interwar America / / John Cheng.
When physicist Robert Goddard, whose career was inspired by H. G. Wells's War of the Worlds, published "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes," the response was electric. Newspaper headlines across the country announced, "Modern Jules Verne Invents Rocket to Reach Moon," wh...
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (400 p.) :; 20 Illus. |
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