The Literary Machinist

Contents

• Introduction
• No. 1: Nevil Shute's Trustee from the Toolroom
• Future Topics

Introduction

These are miscellaneous essays on approximately literary topics which might be of interest to a machinist. As with so many things, the scope of what I would like to do greatly exceeds that of what I have accomplished.

Future Topics

• Anon. "John Henry"
• Automata
• Charles Babbage (Passages from the Life of a Philosopher)
• Richard Bach (Stranger to the Ground, A Gift of Wings)
• Engineering Autobiography (W.O.Bentley, Stanley Hooker)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne ("The Artist of the Beautiful," etc.)
• E. T. A. Hoffmann (Nutcracker, Coppelia)
• Allen Kurzweil (A Case of Curiosities, The Grand Complication)
• Percival Marshall
• William McGonagall ("The Tay Bridge Disaster")
• Stephen Millhauser
• Wilfred Owen ("Dulce et decorum est" and industrial chemistry)
• Samuel Smiles (Industrial Biography)
• Nevil Shute (Round the Bend, Slide Rule, No Highway)
• George R. Stewart (Storm, Fire, Sheep Rock)
• J. M. W. Turner ("Rain, Steam, Speed, the Great Northern Railway," "The Fighting Temeraire")
• Jules Verne (minor works: 500 Millions of the Begum, Hector Servadac)
• Wordsworth ("Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways")

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