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The Steam Man of the Prairies at Wikisource The Steam Man of the Prairies by Edward S. Ellis was the first U.S. science fiction dime novel [ 1 ] and archetype of the Frank Reade series. It is one of the earliest examples of the so-called " Edisonade " genre. [ 2 ]
Frank Reade was the protagonist of a series of dime novels published primarily for boys. [1] [2] The first novel, Frank Reade and His Steam Man of the Plains, an imitation of Edward Ellis's The Steam Man of the Prairies (1868), was written by Harry Enton and serialized in the Frank Tousey juvenile magazine Boys of New York, February 28 through April 24, 1876. [3]
Edward Sylvester Ellis (April 11, 1840 – June 20, 1916) was an American author. [1] [2]Ellis was a teacher, school administrator, journalist, and the author of hundreds of books and magazine articles [3] that he produced by his name and by a number of pen names.
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This is a photograph of the Steam Man, a steam-powered vehicle invented by American inventors Zadoc P. Dederick and Isaac Grass. Zadoc P. Dederick was an American inventor. Along with Isaac Grass he was the creator of a steam-powered humanlike robot designed to pull a cart. [ 1 ]
The interior of SubTropolis. SubTropolis is a business complex located inside of a 55,000,000-square-foot (5,100,000 m 2), 1,260-acre (5.1 km 2) mine in the bluffs north of the Missouri River in Kansas City, Missouri, United States.
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Evans was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1944. Evan's career as an artist started in 1968, when she graduated from the University of Kansas with a BFA in painting and commercial art. [ 4 ] With no formal training in photography, Evans' father taught her the basics and helped develop the skills of what is now her preferred medium.