MUNRO, John

MUNRO, John
(1849-1930)
   UK engineer, professor of mechanical engineering at Bristol, and author of 2 short stories, "Sun-Rise in the Moon" (1894) and "A Message from Mars" (1895), in Cassell's Magazine. The latter was revisedto form the first chapter of A Trip to Venus (1897), an unexceptional account of a journey by ROCKET to an idyllic UTOPIA on VENUS, with a brief excursion to MERCURY.
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