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what if,,, baby jason and baby dick,,, at the SAME TIME?? rip bruce

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Reports of Ashby and Grey Walter's devices, for example, which show the enduring interest in mechanical creatures, call to mind Jacques Loeb's fascination with the selenium-eyed 'dog' built by J.H. Hammond in the 1900s.³⁴

34 Allen, 1975, p. 78. Note also that in 1956 Walter himself published a sub-Wellsian utopian novel in which, among other things, he predicted a society which had mastered human genetics and ectogenesis.

"Frankenstein's Footsteps: Science, Genetics and Popular Culture" - Jon Turney

The only moment, in the first ten Thinking Machine stories written, in which Augustus Van Dusen (the titular thought-machine) resembles a human being. An Angry Young Man comes to see the famously competent Van Dusen, and much to his surprise, finds a little man with a weirdly big head. And much to our surprise, Van Dusen actually reacts.

Oh, what fun we could've had in these stories, if Futrelle had allowed Van Dusen to be a person with remarkable brain-power, rather than a "machine."

#jacques futrelle #the thinking machine #detective fiction #o jacques #you have these little lightning-strikes of brilliance #but you never seem to understand what you've discovered #problem of the missing necklace was GREAT #but the one you wrote right after?#problem of the green-eyed monster?#the quality jumps off a cliff #and plummets right back into familiar territory #absurd descriptions of women #which makes them sound like aliens #and far too little funny #which was what saved Missing Necklace from the sheer improbability of your plot devices #c'mon now

The Rivals Of Sherlock Holmes: Cell 13 (2.3, Thames, 1973)

"Professor, I had heard that you'd been making some such claims. I was anxious to meet you, because as the architect responsible for advising the prison commissioners on security, you must realise that statements of that kind are damaging to my professional reputation."

"It's not my fault if your reputation is founded on a fallacy."

#the rivals of sherlock holmes #rivals spoilers #rivals rewatch #professor van dusen #the thinking machine #jacques futrelle #douglas wilmer #michael gough #ray smith #clifford rose #donald pickering #michael meacham #nicholas courtney #derek ware #davyd harries #janet davies #i wrote a bit about van dusen in my obit post for wilmer #it's a very difficult part that in lesser hands could be totally alienating #the professor is arrogant conceited and snobbish #but wilmer plays it just right with a twinkle in the eye and a hint of a smile at the corner of his mouth #so the audience is in on the joke #he's brilliant #thanks again to @lost-spook #from whom i pinched that lovely pic of nick courtney #ray smith wears a preposterous fake beard throughout that makes him look more bear than man #and clifford rose being not sinister is... strange #callan had finished by now of course so he'd have been looking to expand his wheelhouse #but he played creeps so well its hard not to assume he's going to snap and start being awful

Hello there! I just wanna get this out there in the hopes of finding someone who is also interested in my very small interets, but if you have read...

The Stranger Times by C.K. McDonnell

The Municipalists by Seth Fried

The Thinking Machine stories by Jaques Futrelle

...Please interact with this post or with my blog. The internet is a big place but I haven't found a big fandom for these three favorites of mine so please - talk to me if you like them as well. Thank you :)

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The airship, otherwise known as a ship that travels by air. The Mystery of Cell 13 was serially published from October 30 to November 5, 1905, according to E. F. Bleiler's introduction in The Great Thinking Machine: "The Problem of Cell 13" and Other Stories.

On December 17th, 1903, the Wright brothers made the first successful powered flight, which lasts only 12 seconds, and is reported on by only 3 US newspapers.

On May 22, 1906, Patent no. 821,393 is issued to Orville and Wilbur Wright on a Flying Machine:

This was so interesting, because the first flight had already happened when the Thinking Machine was boasting about being too busy to build one. What we think of today as the epoch-making moment in aerospace history was so little known, that two years later, the Boston American published this story without even blinking at that comment.

I wonder what those three very special newspapers which did report on the Wright Brothers' historic flight had to say about it.

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The Adventure of the Mona Lisa (1912)

The Society of Infallible Detectives was a team of the most well known detectives of the late 19th and early 20th century. However, their adventures seemed to have been a parody, in which the detectives proved ineffectual as a team, mainly because each detective insisted on solving the mystery himself.

The society was led by Sherlock Holmes and came to order at the society's headquarters on Fakir Street in London. They investigated the robbery of the Mona Lisa painting, as well as other crimes.

Membership included: Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, Arsène Lupin, Craig Kennedy, Monsieur Lecoq, Rouletabille, A.J. Raffles (E.W. Hornung), C. Auguste Dupin (Edgar Allan Poe), S.S. "The Thinking Machine" Van Dusen (Jacques Futrelle), Philip Trent (E.C. Bentley), Ebenezer Gryce (Anna Katherine Green), Calvin "Scientific" Sprague (Francis Lynde), Luther Trant (William MacHarg and Edwin Balmer), and M. Eugène François Vidocq.

Source: Public Domain Super Heroes

Sherlock Holmes and a band of his most infallible deductive friends solve mysteries. Infallibly, of course. "The Adventure of the Mona Lisa" appeared in January 1912 in The Century magazine, and "The Adventure of the Clothes-Line" in the same magazine in May 1915.

Mystery and humor writer Carolyn Wells' two crossover stories invented the concept of a modern league of heroes. (Homer and the Argonaut legends did it back in the day.) She also wrote The Technique of the Detective Story, an instruction manual.

Source: The Internet Archive

The International Society of Infallible Detectives is the first superhero team of history. Presided by Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle) and Composed of Arsene Lupin (Maurice Leblanc), Arthur J. Raffles (Ernest William Hornung), the Thinking Machine (Jacques Futrelle), Auguste Dupin (Edgar Allan Poe), Vidocq-Lecocq (Emile Gaboriau), Rouletabille (Gaston Leroux), Craig Kennedy (Arthur Reeve), Luther Trant (William MacHarg and Edwin Balmer), Ebenezer Gryce (Anna Katharine Green) and Dr. Watson (Arthur Conan Doyle).

In their headquarters on Fakir Street, they are waiting for a case worthy of them. When it happens they mutualise their intelligence to solve the mystery. But their solutions are... strange.

Source: Amazon

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