Balch, Frank
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1881-1937) US inventor and author, creator of an improved X-ray technology in 1916 which markedly reduced the time necessary for gaining an image; his sf novel, A Submarine Tour (1905) manages – in a narrative painfully derived from Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) – to visit more than one Lost World, including Atlantis, in a submarine which hits 80 knots. All ends safely. [JC/MA]
Frank Balch
born Salem, Massachusetts: 31 October 1881
died Salem, Massachusetts: 30 October 1937
works
- A Submarine Tour (New York: Broadway Publishing Co, 1905) [hb/]
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