Uncovering Edgar Allan Poe - the science buff

[Dave Monroe]

Posted on Thu, Oct. 14, 2010

Uncovering Edgar Allan Poe - the science buff
By Faye Flam

Inquirer Staff Writer

In 1844, readers of the New York Sun were treated to a sensational
feature story in which an adventurer flew across the Atlantic Ocean in
a lighter-than-air balloon. Though it was presented in exquisite
technical detail as news, the story's author, Edgar Allan Poe, had
made it up.

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