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    Beyond the Heaviside Layer
    Beyond the Heaviside Layer
    Beyond the Heaviside Layer
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    Beyond the Heaviside Layer

    By Capt SP Meek

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    Jim Carpenter had never agreed to the opinion almost unanimously held by the scientists as to the true nature of the magnetic heaviside layer. He was going to try and punch a hole through it.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXinXii
    Release dateNov 30, 2015
    ISBN9781612100005
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      Beyond the Heaviside Layer - Capt SP Meek

      Beyond the Heaviside Layer

      By Capt. S.P. Meek

      Copyright © July 1930 Capt. S.P. Meek

      This edition published in 2010 by eStar Books, LLC.

      www.estarbooks.com

      ISBN - 9781612100005

      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.

      Other Works by SP Meek Include

      Drums of Tapajos

      Troyana

      The Monkeys Have no tails in Zamboanga

      Doctor Bird and Operative Carnes Series

      The Radio Robbery

      The Thief of Time

      Cold Light

      The Ray of Madness

      Stolen Brains

      The Sea Terror

      The Black Lamp

      When Caverns Yawned

      The Port of Missing Planes

      The Solara Magnet

      Poisoned Air

      Vanishing Gold

      The Great Drought

      Jim Carpenter

      Beyond the Heaviside Layer

      The Attack from Space

      The Murgatroyd Experiment

      Futility

      The Red Peril

      The Osmotic Theorem

      The Cave of Horror

      Into Space

      Trapped in the Depths

      The Last War

      The Tragedy of Spider Island

      Nasturtia

      The Earth’s Cancer

      Submicroscopic

      Awlo of Ulm

      The Black Mass

      Giants on the Earth

      B.C. 30,000

      The Synthetic Entity

      The Curse of Valedi

      Beyond the Heaviside Layer

      By Capt S. P. Meek

      They were moving sluggishly along the red light, seeming to flow rather than crawl.

      McQuarrie, the City Editor, looked up as I entered his office.

      Bond, he asked, do you know Jim Carpenter?

      I know him slightly, I replied cautiously. I have met him several times and I interviewed him some years ago when he improved the Hadley rocket motor. I can't claim a very extensive acquaintance with him.

      I thought you knew him well. It is a surprise to me to find that there is any prominent man who is not an especial friend of yours. At any rate you know him as well as anyone of the staff, so I'll give you the assignment.

      What's he up to now? I asked.

      He's going to try to punch a hole in the heaviside layer.

      But that's impossible, I cried. How can anyone....

      My voice died away in silence. True enough, the idea of trying to make a permanent hole in a field of magnetic force was absurd, but even as I spoke I remembered that Jim Carpenter had never agreed to the opinion almost unanimously held by our scientists as to the true nature of the heaviside layer.

      It may be impossible, replied McQuarrie dryly, "but you are not

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