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Ellsworth Douglass. Pharaoh's Broker
Pharaoh's Broker
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
Elusive Truth
BOOK I
Secrets of Space
CHAPTER I
Dr. Hermann Anderwelt
CHAPTER II
The Gravity Projectile
CHAPTER III
Structure of the Projectile
CHAPTER IV
What is on Mars?
CHAPTER V
Final Preparations
CHAPTER VI
Farewell to Earth
CHAPTER VII
The Terrors of Light
CHAPTER VIII
The Valley of the Shadow
CHAPTER IX
Tricks of Refraction
CHAPTER X
The Twilight of Space
CHAPTER XI
Telling the Time by Geography
CHAPTER XII
Space Fever
CHAPTER XIII
The Mystery of a Minus Weight
BOOK II
Other World Life
CHAPTER I
Why Mars gives a Red Light
CHAPTER II
The Terror Birds
CHAPTER III
The Armies of Mars
CHAPTER IV
The Strange Bravery of Miss Blank
CHAPTER V
Zaphnath, Ruler of the Kemi
CHAPTER VI
The Iron Men from the Blue Star
CHAPTER VII
Parallel Planetary Life
CHAPTER VIII
A Plagiarist of Dreams
CHAPTER IX
Getting into the Corner
CHAPTER X
Humanity on Ptah
CHAPTER XI
Revolutionist and Eavesdropper
CHAPTER XII
The Doctor Disappears
CHAPTER XIII
The Revelation of Hotep
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Ellsworth Douglass
Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner
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"Then I shall engage some adventurous fellow as assistant. First, we must set the rudder, which is both horizontal and vertical, so that the projectile can be steered up, down, or to either side. Having fixed it so as to be directed a little upward, I begin with the currents. Suppose the projectile weighs a ton, I gradually neutralize the positive current, which we are acquainted with as gravity. When it is exactly neutralized, the projectile weighs nothing, and the pressure of the air is enough to make it rise more rapidly than a balloon. When I have created a negative current, the projectile acquires a buoyancy equal to its previous weight. That is, it will now fall up as rapidly as it would previously have fallen down. It will not do to put on the full negative current at once, for we should acquire a velocity that would simply burn us up by friction with the atmosphere. However, the air is soon passed; if in the ether beyond there is very little friction, or none at all, we shall go at full speed, which will be the constantly increasing velocity of a falling body.
"Somewhere between the Earth and the nearest planet," he continued, "there is a place where the attraction of one is just equal to the attraction of the other; and if a body is stopped in that fatal spot it will be anchored there for ever, by the equally matched forces tugging in opposite directions. There is such a dead line between all the planets, and our principal danger lies in falling into one of these, for we should remain there a twinkling star throughout eternity! We must trust to our momentum to carry us past this point, and into space where the gravitational attraction of the other planet is paramount. Then we must promptly change our current from negative to positive, so that the other planet will attract us to her. Otherwise, she would repel us back to the dead line.
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