Thread: Other founders of the "Golden Age" of Sicience Fiction
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Old 07-10-2017, 08:00 PM   #114
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Both electricity and batteries were well known a couple of centuries ago: the first electric telegraph, for example, was invented in 1816. Hence my disagreement with your comment that a flashlight would have been "hard to imagine".
Okay so change what I said to 3 centuries ago. I was making an illustration. The time period doesn't matter.

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