Skylark of Space
Author: first_name:  Lee Hawkins
last_name: Garby
first_name: E. E.
last_name: Smith
Language: English
Year: 1920

The novel begins with the accidental discovery, in a Government laboratory in Washington D. C., of a form of clean nuclear power. Our hero, Dr. Richard Seaton, uses this power to build first a flying belt and then an interstellar spaceship. He later discovers that the process operates by generation and manipulation of gravity fields.<br /><br />

When his government coworkers do not believe him, Seaton acquires rights to his discovery from the government and commercializes it with the aid of his