Patrick Manson (Medical Advisor to the Colonial Office) develops the thesis that malaria is spread by mosquitoes . In 1895 H. G. Wells ' novel The Time Machine is first published. Alternative History is forever grateful. Quote: http://faculty.kirkwood.edu/ryost/st.../maxim1915.doc Excerpts from Defenseless America (Hearst’s International Library Co., 1915) by Hudson Maxim The main object