The World Set Free

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The World Set Free is a novel published in 1914 by HG Wells. The book is planned as a nuclear weapon.
A constant theme of the work Wells, advances in 1901 non-fiction, was the effect of energy and technological progress as a determinant of human progress. The novel begins: "Human history is the history of the attainment of external power.Man is the instrument by fire animal. "

Scientists at the time were well aware that the slow natural decay of radioactive elements like radium for thousands of years continue, and that while the rate of energy release is negligible, the total amount granted enormous. Wells uses this as the basis for his story.

The problem already by these scientific men as Ramsay was considered Rutherford and Soddy, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the probleminduce radio-activity in the heavier elements and so tapping the internal energy of atoms, was solved with a wonderful combination of induction, intuition, and happiness just Holsten 1933.

The physicist Leo Szilard read the book in 1932, the idea of nuclear chain reaction in 1933 and applied for patents for them during the 1934 Soddy book Wealth, Virtual Wealth and Debt praises The World saved.

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