| Von Kempelen and his Discovery Contributor(s): Cedeno, Yasmira (Editor), Poe, Edgar Allan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1548368008 ISBN-13: 9781548368005 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $7.72 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.05" H x 6" W x 9" (0.11 lbs) 26 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Von Kempelen and his Discovery." Is a short story wrote by Edgar Allan Poe in 1850. It described the discovery by a German chemist, Baron Von Kempelen, of an alchemical process to transform lead into gold. The account concluded by noting that news of the discovery had already caused a two hundred per cent leap in the price of lead in Europe. The story was fictional, although this was not indicated anywhere. Its author was Edgar Allan Poe. He had evidently hoped that the tale might deter some of the "forty-niners" who were heading off to California in search of gold that had recently been discovered there. |