1909 photograph of John Jacob Astor leaning from a train window.
Featured on PDR in the essay Colonizing the Cosmos: Astor’s Electrical Future
During America’s Gilded Age, the future seemed to pulse with electrical possibility. Iwan Rhys Morus follows the interplanetary safari that is John Jacob Astor’s _A Journey in Other Worlds_, a high-voltage scientific romance in which visions of imperialism haunt a supposedly “perfect” future.
Also appearing in the essay…
John Jacob Astor Leaning from a Train Window
Date
1909
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