


"Fifty Years Hence" is a quasi-fictional work by Robert Grimshaw, a professional engineer, with the intent of making a serious prediction of America's technological future, using engineering knowledge from his time in 1892. The fictional narrator is 21-year-old Francis Ainsworth...

"Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns." Locksley Hall. That portion of the public which honors me by perusing what I have been fortunate enough to learn concerning the future of the inhabitants...
