The Technologists (with bonus short story The Professor's Assassin) The Technologists (with bonus short story The Professor's Assassin)

The Technologists (with bonus short story The Professor's Assassin‪)‬

A Novel

    • 3.8 • 88 Ratings
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Publisher Description

“A terrific historical mystery in the fine old Arthur Conan Doyle style . . . Who knew that a mystery formed around the founding of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology could be so good? . . . There are cliffhanger endings and fortuitous escapes. . . . There are even a couple of very sweet romances.”—The Globe and Mail
 
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Boston, 1868. The Civil War may be over but a new war has begun, one between past and present, tradition and technology. The daring Massachusetts Institute of Technology is on a mission to harness science for the benefit of all. But when an unnatural disaster strikes the ships in Boston Harbor, and an equally inexplicable catastrophe devastates the heart of the city, an antiscience backlash casts a pall over MIT and threatens its very survival. So the best and brightest from the Institute’s first graduating class secretly join forces to save innocent lives and track down the truth. Armed with ingenuity and their unique scientific training, gifted war veteran Marcus Mansfield, blueblood Robert Richards, genius Edwin Hoyt, and brilliant freshman Ellen Swallow will match wits with a master criminal bent on the utter destruction of the city.
 
Don’t miss Matthew Pearl’s short story “The Professor’s Assassin,” featuring characters from The Technologists, in the back of the book.
 
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GENRE
Mysteries & Thrillers
RELEASED
2012
February 21
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
496
Pages
PUBLISHER
Random House Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
8.3
MB

Customer Reviews

Peter 14 ,

Good historical narrative

Nicely done historical novel about early technology and life in Boston in 1868. Interesting to see how MIT may have originated and the resistance it received from non-believers in technology. What would today's world be if the few had not fought for the future of modern science!

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