Great Stone of Sardis

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - General Fiction, Science Fiction

Authors: Frank R. Stockton In Year : 1898

Book Language: English

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The Arrival of the Euterpe-Thalia
The Sardis Works
Margaret Raleigh
The Mission of Samuel Block
Under Water
Voices from the Polar Seas
Good News Goes from Sardis
The Devil on the Dipsey
The Artesian Ray
'Lake Shiver'
They Believe it is the Polar Sea
Captain Hubbell Takes Comand
Longitude Everything
A Region ofNothingness
The Automatic Shell
The Track of the Shell
Captain Hubbell Declines to go Whaling
Mr. Marcy's Canal
The Icy Gateway
'This Is How I Love You'
The Cave of Light
Clewe's Theory
The Last Dive of the Dipsey
Rovinski Comes to the Surface
Laurels

The home of Roland Clewe, a small house plainly furnished, but good enough for a bachelor's quarters, stood not half a mile from the station, and near it were the extensive buildings which he called his Works. Here were laboratories, large machine-shops in which many men were busy at all sorts of strange contrivances in metal and other materials; and besides other small edifices there was a great round tower --like structure, with smooth iron walls thirty feet high and without windows, and which was lighted and ventilated from the top. This was Clewe's special workshop; and besides old Samuel Block and such workmen as were absolutely necessary and could be trusted, few people ever entered it but himself. The industries in the various buildings were diverse, some of them having no apparent relation to the others. Each of them was expected to turn out something which would revolutionize something or other in this world, but it was to his lens-house that Roland Clewe gave, in these days, his special attention. Here a great enterprise was soon to begin, more important in his eyes than anything else which had engaged human endeavor. . . .