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Dr. Nick Laslowicz (The Centrifuge Brain Project) Dr. Mannering (Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man) Dr. Wolfe MacFarlane (The Body Snatcher) Dr. Cal Meacham (This Island Earth) – earth scientist (a radio engineer in the novel) kidnapped to solve the problem of defending the planet Metaluna.
1911–1967 (fiction) Genre. Science fiction. Gernsback demonstrating his television goggles in 1963 for Life magazine. Gernsback watching a television broadcast by his station WRNY on the cover of his Radio News (Nov 1928) Hugo Gernsback (/ ˈɡɜːrnzbæk /; born Hugo Gernsbacher, August 16, 1884 – August 19, 1967) was an American editor ...
The Swiss Family Robinson (German: Der Schweizerische Robinson, "The Swiss Robinson") is a novel by the Swiss author Johann David Wyss, first published in 1812, about a Swiss family of immigrants whose ship en route to Port Jackson, Australia, goes off course and is shipwrecked in the East Indies. The ship's crew is lost, but the family and ...
The Veldt (short story) " The Veldt " is a science fiction short story by American author Ray Bradbury. Originally appearing as " The World the Children Made " in the September 23, 1950, issue of The Saturday Evening Post, it was republished under its current name in the 1951 anthology The Illustrated Man.
This is a list of science fiction and fantasy artists, notable and well-known 20th- and 21st-century artists who have created book covers or interior illustrations for books, or who have had their own books or comic books of fantastic art with science fiction or fantasy themes published. Artists known exclusively for their work in comic books ...
Modern sewing machine needles, with the eyes near to their points. There is a possibly apocryphal account of Elias Howe inventing the needle of the modern lockstitch sewing machine in a dream. A traditional needle has its eye at its base, but Howe was supposedly inspired by a dream to instead position the eye at the point, as recorded in the ...
Evidence for the earliest origins of the Inuit clothing system is therefore usually inferred from sewing tools and art objects found at archaeological sites. [ 1 ] In what is now Irkutsk Oblast , Siberia , archaeologists have found carved figurines and statuettes at sites originating from the Mal'ta–Buret' culture which appear to be wearing ...
Mary Ann Sponsler (1836–1861) Children. 26. Isaac Merritt Singer (October 27, 1811 – July 23, 1875) was an American inventor, actor, and businessman. He made important improvements in the design of the sewing machine [1] and was the founder of what became one of the first American multi-national businesses, the Singer Sewing Machine Company ...