My new article on Verne's Island Furnace

[quentin skrabec]

This article was originally meant for Vernia because it had a very limited audience - the intersection of metallurgical   engineers and Verne lovers, but the "peers" (French literature and language experts and translators),, who totally missed the significance of Verne's use of coal instead of charcoal in his Mysterious Island Furnace ( you really need some engineers or technical educated people for some peer reviews) thrashed it. For a metallurgist, Verne's use of coal in such a furnace demonstrates knowledge ahead of the times. 

 

Since it was worth two years of research, I just couldn't shelve it. i re-formatted for an interdisciplinary, albeit a B journal, and got it accepted-- still, the real audience is Verne  lovers -- so here it is  attached

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