ROGERS, Lebbeus Harding

(1847-1932)

   US businessman and writer whose The Kite Trust (A Romance of Wealth) (1900), which may have been self-published, follows the juvenile kite-inventors and founders of the eponymous compact into adulthood, enormous wealth, the discovery of new energy sources and the construction of transatlantic tunnels, while all the while an interplanetary spirit instructs the cast on the history of the Solar System.

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