History of the sun newspaper
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- Edward Page Mitchell was born in Bath, Maine on March 24, 1852.
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Edward Page Mitchell was born in Bath, Maine on 24th March 1852 into a wealthy family. When he was eight the family moved to a house on New York’s Fifth Avenue.
In 1863 he witnessed the Draft Riots and in the aftermath Mitchell's father moved the family to Tar River, North Carolina. It was there, at the age of fourteen, that his letters were first published in the local newspaper The Bath Times.
In 1872, at age twenty, whilst on a train journey to Bath, Maine, a hot cinder from the engine's smokestack flew in through the window blinding his left eye. After several weeks, while doctors attempted to restore his sight his uninjured right eye underwent sympathetic blindness. He was now completely blind. His burnt left eye eventually regained its sight, but his uninjured right eye remained blind and was later removed surgically and replaced with a prosthetic glass eye. While recovering from this surgery, Mitchell wrote his famed story ‘The Tachypomp’.
He became a journalist for the Daily Adve
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Edward Page Mitchell
American novelist
Edward Page Mitchell | |
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| Born | March 24, 1852 Bath, Maine, US |
| Died | January 22, 1927 (aged 74) New London, Connecticut, US |
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| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Science fiction |
Edward Page Mitchell (1852–1927) was an American editorial and short story writer for The Sun, a daily newspaper in New York City. He became that newspaper's editor in 1897, succeeding Charles Anderson Dana. Mitchell was recognized as a major figure in the early development of the science fictiongenre.[1] Mitchell wrote fiction about a man rendered invisible by scientific means ("The Crystal Man", published in 1881) before H. G. Wells's The Invisible Man, wrote about a time-travel machine ("The Clock that Went Backward") before Wells's The Time Machine, wrote about faster-than-light travel ("The Tachypomp"; now perhaps his best-known work) in 1874, a thinking computer and a cyborg in 1879 ("The Ablest Man in the World"), and also wrote the earliest known stories about matter transmission or teleportation ("The Man without a B
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Edward Page Mitchell (1852-1927),
Science Fiction Pioneer:
Time Travel, Hegel, and More
Edward Page Mitchell was an editor for the New York Sun and a pioneer of the science fiction genre, an initiator or innovator of several of its sub-genres—time travel, teleportation, invisibility, faster-than-light travel, mutants, mind transfer, thinking computers and cyborgs.
The first fictional presentation of a time machine is credited to Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau (1887) but the first bona fide science fiction story featuring time travel is more difficult to fix. The main Wikipedia article on time travel lists a number of candidates. As far as unambiguous naturalistic time travel (e.g. not involving sleep, dreams, etc.) are concerned, one candidate is Alexander Veltman’s 1836 Predki Kalimerosa: Aleksandr Filippovich Makedonskii (The forebears of Kalimeros: Alexander, son of Philip of Macedon), in which the narrator rides to ancient Greece on a hippogriff. Other examples are cited, which are ambiguous, involve dreams or supernatural agents. Mitchell's 1881 short story
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