ATD 214-15: airships etc

[Monte Davis]

For extensions of the dime-novel imagery into the pulp era, see

http://davidszondy.com/future/Flight/airships.htm

Side note: Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the Russian schoolteacher who worked out
most of the principles of rockets to space in the 1890s, also did a lot of
work on thin-metal-skinned dirigibles. I won't be at all surprised if that
turns up

The main site, Tales of Future Past, is a fine blending of nostalgia and
snark. A mother lode of Raketen-Stadt dreams (a-and Tesla, too!)

http://davidszondy.com/future/futurepast.htm

Another lode -- 192 (count 'em!) dime novels and penny dreadfuls on one CD
-- at

http://samizdat.stores.yahoo.net/dime.html



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