More about the World of 2126

The Mummy! was the first novel about the future to spend quite so many pages describing the strange new technologies and cultural changes of the days to come. There have been so many wonderful discoveries made, and so many ingenious contrivances put into execution!

Webb explains how in the twenty-second century people can travel in moving houses that just fit on the iron railways, or, if they want to go far, in balloons that carry them upwards seventeen miles or thereabouts, which is...