On the Frontiers of Science: Strange Machines You Can Build

Name: Obviously not science, but the origin of the Wishing Machine in WSB Western Lands
Item: On the Frontiers of Science: Strange Machines You Can Build
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by G. Harry Stine

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Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0689115628

ISBN13:9780689115622

Release Date:January 1985

Publisher:Atheneum Books

Length:111 Pages

Weight:0.60 lbs.

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Engineering Science & Math Technology

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Obviously not science, but the origin of the Wishing Machine in WSB Western Lands

Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 14 years ago

"Machines that sometimes work, for some people, and sometimes not at all." These are schematics of abstract "machines" or devices for making our wishes come true, our weather to be controlled, and our emotions to be quelled. Most notably this book influenced William S. Burroughs and gave rise to the Wishing Machine that appears in his novel The Western Lands. It's an interesting piece of rustic, idiosyncratic oddness, All-American and all-weird.

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