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The story opens on an oppressively hot day with a poor little newspaper boy, Charley, playing with a "burning glass" (a magnifying glass) which he uses to concentrate sunlight onto a small focal spot, thus intensifying the heat on some paper until it burns a hole, perhaps a portent of things to come. He is noticed by a recluse scientist, Dr. Robold, who takes interest in Charley's scientific curiosity and calls him a young Archimedes

Produktbeschreibung
The story opens on an oppressively hot day with a poor little newspaper boy, Charley, playing with a "burning glass" (a magnifying glass) which he uses to concentrate sunlight onto a small focal spot, thus intensifying the heat on some paper until it burns a hole, perhaps a portent of things to come. He is noticed by a recluse scientist, Dr. Robold, who takes interest in Charley's scientific curiosity and calls him a young Archimedes
Autorenporträt
Austin Hall (1885-1933) was an American short story writer of science fiction and fantasy for pulp magazines. He wrote novels including The Blind Spot (1921) with Homer Eon Flint, People of the Comet (1923) and The Spot of Life (1932). His oeuvre also included short fiction like 'The Rebel Soul' (1917) and 'The Man Who Saved the Earth'.