Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Microscopic Giants
    Microscopic Giants
    Microscopic Giants
    Ebook35 pages25 minutes

    Microscopic Giants

    By Paul Ernst

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Men Go Forty Thousand Feet Below the Surface to Find Copper-and Battle with the Scurrying, Lilliputian Denizens of a Strange Land of Atomic Compression!

    Excerpt

    "It happened toward the end of the Great War of 1941, which was an indirect cause. You’ll find mention of it in the official records filed at Washington. Curious reading, some of those records! Among them are accounts of incidents so bizarre-freak accidents and odd discoveries fringing war activities-that the filing clerks must have raised their eyebrows skeptically before they buried them in steel cabinets, to remain unread for the rest of time.

    But this particular one will never be buried in oblivion for me. Because I was on the spot when it happened, and I was the one who sent in the report.

    Copper!

    A war-torn world was famished for it. The thunder of guns, from the Arctic to the Antarctic and from the Pacific to the Atlantic and back again, drummed for it. Equipment behind the lines demanded it. Statesmen lied for it and national bankers ran up bills that would never be paid to get it.

    Copper, copper, copper!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXinXii
    Release dateNov 21, 2015
    ISBN9781612103877
    Microscopic Giants
    Author

    Paul Ernst

    (Karl Friedrich) Paul Ernst, Germany, 1866-1933.

    Read more from Paul Ernst

    Related to Microscopic Giants

    Related ebooks

    Science Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Is The Search For Dark Matter An Act Of Faith?

      Oct 10, 2019

      The young physicist sits at his computer, watching for signals from Cygnus. His name is Christopher Toth, and his white lab coat is too big for him. Christopher speaks with calm clarity. His manner is modest, gracefully gentle, and I wonder if this c

      8 min read

    • Article

      Guiding Lights

      Mar 21, 2022

      Guiding Lights
      5 min read

    • Article

      Wisdom Of The Ancients

      Oct 15, 2020

      Wisdom Of The Ancients
      5 min read

    • Article

      Happy As A Mudlark

      Jul 13, 2020

      Happy As A Mudlark
      8 min read

    • Article

      Tongue Stones

      May 27, 2022

      Tongue Stones
      5 min read

    • Article

      Plumbing the Depths

      Jun 3, 2019

      Plumbing the Depths
      3 min read

    • Article

      Roger’s PROFANISAURUS

      Jan 5, 2022

      Roger’s PROFANISAURUS
      5 min read

    • Article

      Why We’re Drawn Into Darkness

      Oct 10, 2019

      Robert Macfarlane grew up obsessed twith climbing mountains and nearly died on several occasions as he scaled some of the world’s high peaks. He found a safer way to indulge his alpine passions, writing about the mystique of mountains. As someone dra

      6 min read

    • Article

      Commonplace Book

      Sep 3, 2019

      And that is why I do not like the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons. —Ogden Nash, “Everybody Tells Me Everything,” The Face Is Familiar, 1941 Someone goes by wearing a

      3 min read

    • Article

      Another Part Of The Stonehenge Mystery Has Been Unearthed Before Our Eyes | Charlotte Higgins

      Feb 16, 2021

      Connections between the great neolithic monument of Stonehenge and the hills of west Wales have been observed for centuries. Daniel Defoe, writing in the early 18th century about a stone circle in Pembrokeshire, remarked that it was “very like Stone-

      3 min read

    • Article

      That Time We Dug For Dinosaurs

      May 11, 2022

      That Time We Dug For Dinosaurs
      4 min read

    • Article

      An Ancient Mastodon Ignited a Debate Over Humans' Arrival in North America

      Dec 25, 2017

      "Oh my God," Richard Cerutti said to himself. He bent down to pick up a sharp, splintered bone fragment. Its thickness and weight told him that it belonged to an animal, a very big animal. His mind started to race. He was standing at the foot of a sl

      13 min read

    • Article

      Final Analysis

      Jan 22, 2018

      Final Analysis
      2 min read

    • Article

      Ancient Encounters

      Mar 18, 2020

      Ancient Encounters
      2 min read

    • Article

      The Day The Dinosaurs Died

      May 11, 2022

      The Day The Dinosaurs Died
      6 min read

    • Article

      The World Beneath Our Feet

      Sep 1, 2020

      The World Beneath Our Feet
      8 min read

    • Article

      Kings Of The Stone Age

      Feb 1, 2024

      Kings Of The Stone Age
      8 min read

    • Article

      LITHOPHONES: Rocks That Sing

      Mar 1, 2020

      LITHOPHONES: Rocks That Sing
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Anthropocene Is a Joke

      Aug 13, 2019

      The Anthropocene Is a Joke
      13 min read

    • Article

      The Mystique of PETRIFIED ANTLERS

      May 14, 2021

      More than a million years ago, a mature whitetail buck was walking the edge of a saltwater drainage in what is now Florida. Su ddenly, he was brought down by a predator doing what predators do best. He might have been killed by a canine, feline, huge

      6 min read

    • Article

      Mystery Of The Monoliths: If Only It Were Aliens

      Dec 8, 2020

      Someone had to spoil it. That could be the motto of the social media age when things that begin as wonders become mere memes. Now our inability to let well alone is turning the most mysterious art happening of 2020 into another tedious prank. Strange

      3 min read

    • Article

      Native Nevada

      Jun 6, 2023

      Native Nevada
      7 min read

    • Article

      “The Stonework At Stonehenge Is A Gordian Knot Of Mind-bogglingness”

      Feb 20, 2020

      Ellie Cawthorne: Your new book chronicles your hands-on work on some of Britain’s most significant stone structures. What has that work involved, and why did it inspire you to write a book? Andrew Ziminski: Over the course of my career as a stonema

      7 min read

    • Article

      Off The Scale

      Apr 29, 2022

      Off The Scale
      7 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Microscopic Giants

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Microscopic Giants - Paul Ernst

      The Microscopic Giants

      By Paul Ernst

      Copyright © 1936 by Paul Ernst

      This edition published in 2011 by eStar Books, LLC.

      www.estarbooks.com

      ISBN

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      The publishers at eStar Books are proud to provide this quality title for your reading pleasure. At eStar Books, we specialize in the unique and unusual. To find more titles in the genres you love most, including sci-fi, fantasy and speculative fiction, visit us at www.estarbooks.com.

      Men Go Forty Thousand Feet Below the Surface to Find Copper—and Battle with the Scurrying, Lilliputian Denizens of a Strange Land of Atomic Compression!

      Mannikins were walking toward us through the cement wall

      The Microscopic Giants

      By Paul Ernst

      It happened toward the end of the Great War of 1941, which was an indirect cause. You’ll find mention of it in the official records filed at Washington. Curious reading, some of those records! Among them are accounts of incidents so bizarre—freak accidents and odd discoveries fringing war activities—that the filing clerks must have raised their eyebrows skeptically before they buried them in steel cabinets, to remain unread for the rest of time.

      But this particular one will never be buried in oblivion for me. Because I was on the spot when it happened, and I was the one who sent in the report.

      Copper!

      A war-torn world was famished for it. The thunder of guns, from the Arctic to the Antarctic and from the Pacific to the Atlantic and back again, drummed for it. Equipment behind the lines demanded it. Statesmen lied for it and national bankers ran up bills that would never be paid to get it.

      Copper, copper, copper!

      Every obscure mine in the world was worked to capacity. Men risked their lives to salvage fragments

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1