Wells, David A
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1828-1898) US engineer, economist, editor, inventor and author, mostly of nonfiction like The Science of Common Things (1857) and a very popular textbook, Wells's Natural Philosophy (1863); he was a free-trade advocate, holding influential positions during the presidencies of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. He is of sf interest for Robinson Crusoe's Money; Or, the Remarkable Financial Fortunes and Misfortunes of a Remote Island Community (1876), set on an Island Utopia which boast a high-Technology civilizations, but where experiments in overprinting Money lead to disaster. [JC]
David Ames Wells
born Springfield, Massachusetts: 17 June 1828
died Norwich, Connecticut: 6 November 1898
works (highly selected)
- Robinson Crusoe's Money; Or, the Remarkable Financial Fortunes and Misfortunes of a Remote Island Community (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1876) [hb/]
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