The Poison Belt by Arthur Conan Doyle:
Science Fiction Inventions, Technology and Ideas

"Being an account of another amazing adventure of Professor George E. Challenger, Lord John Roxton, Professor Summerlee, and Mr. E.D. Malone, the discoverers of 'The Lost World'."


('The Poison Belt' by Arthur Conan Doyle)

Read the The Poison Belt in The Strand Magazine (use the Jump to Section feature to get the other page numbers in the table of contents). Select an invention:

Poison Space Cloud (Etheric Poison)
A deadly cloud of gas large enough to envelop the solar system.

 

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