The Paradise Within the Reach of All Men, Without Labor, by Powers of Nature and Machinery An Address to All Intelligent Men. In Two Parts 1833 [Leather Bound]

by John Adolphus Etzler

Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine (extra customization on request like complete leather, Golden Screen printing in Front, Color Leather, Colored book etc.)

241 pages, Leather Bound

First published January 1, 1833

Reviews

[Osiris Oliphant]

From Wikipedia,

John Adolphus Etzler (1791–1846?) was a German engineer and inventor who immigrated to the United States in 1831 with a vision of creating a technological utopia. He was traveling with a group from Prussia, who included younger engineers John A. Roebling and his brother Carl.

Because of disagreements, the group broke up. Etzler and most of the group first settled near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In the early 1840s Etzler and several dozen of his followers moved to the tropics, to set up utopian communities to use his inventions in Venezuela and Trinidad. He believed his inventions could work off natural forces and avoid human labor. Their efforts failed and many people died. Etzler survived but disappeared from the record.

[Jon Anzalone · Rating 2 out of 5]

absolute madness

[Emma Burris]

Read this for my religion class. A whole load of BS…but I feel a bit bad for the guy. He had a vision. So much of this was just his mental math and ideas for things that he couldn’t even invent so it wasn’t really worth reading because it was just a lot of “10,000 tons of this will power enough xyz to feed 1,700,997 people” etc. I listened to most of it on audiobook so didn’t retain a lot anyways.