Welcome, S Byron
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1861-1948) US engineer, inventor and author of From Earth's Center: A Polar Gateway Message (1894), a Lost World tale whose protagonists descend into a Symmes-style Hollow Earth, where they discover an English-speaking country called Centralia, a Utopia where laissez-faire capitalism is luckily controlled by some mixed socialistic joint ownership of the land itself. High Technology based on electricity benefits all. [JC]
Solon Byron Welcome
born Booneville, Missouri: 24 February 1861
died Los Angeles, California: 13 November 1948
works
- From Earth's Center: A Polar Gateway Message (Chicago, Illinois: Charles H Kerr, 1894) [in the publisher's Library of Progress series: hb/]
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