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In the Deep of Time by George Parsons Lathrop:
Science Fiction Inventions, Technology and Ideas
This story is sometimes called Thomas Edison's novel, because he spent a lot of time working on Progress, a science fiction story he abandoned but not before producing many pages of notes.
George Parsons Lathrup originally offered to collaborate with Edison on his memoirs, having written about him for magazines. He and Edison had five or six interviews together in which "in which Edison poured out suggestions faster than Lathrop could assimilate them" according to an Australian newspaper.

('In the Deep of Time' by George Parsons Lathrop)
In his 1908 biography, Edison told Lathrop that he “would rather invent a dozen useful things, including a mechanical novelist who would turn out works of fiction when the machinery was set in motion, than go any further with the electrical novel.”
But Lathrop went ahead anyway. Select
an invention:
Electric Bicycle A two-wheeled device utilizing stored electricity as motive power.
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Glow-Worm Living Alternated work, play and slumber without long periods of sleep.
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Home Planet Usually the birthplace of your species or simply your planet of origin.
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Life-Brew A non-alcoholic beverage, but similar to wine.
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Vivification A process by which the body can be preserved for centuries at body temperature and then revived.
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