The Machine That Floats

audiobook

The Machine That Floats

by Joe Gibson

EN·~2 hours·6 chapters

Chapters

6 total

Part 1

31:42

Part 2

31:45

Part 3

31:42

Part 4

31:17

Part 5

31:33

Part 6

8:23

Description

In a dim cellar workshop, Bill Morrow watches in disbelief as a small, humming device lifts itself off the workbench and hovers in mid‑air. Powered by ordinary flashlight batteries and a mysterious blend of magnetic and gravitic forces, the contraption can counteract its own weight and even lighten the man who touches it. As he experiments, the machine’s “volume” control hints at a power that could eventually defy Earth’s gravity altogether.

The breakthrough puts Morrow at a crossroads: should he share this gravity‑defying technology with the world, or keep it secret and risk becoming a target for those who would seize it? The story follows his uneasy attempts to master the device while the shadow of legal and moral consequences looms large. Listeners are drawn into a tense, thought‑provoking tale of invention, responsibility, and the price of holding the future in one’s hands.

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Language

en

Duration

~2 hours (159K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2015-08-13

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

JG

Joe Gibson

A memoir writer publishing under a pseudonym, he drew wide attention with Seventeen, a coming-of-age story shaped by a deeply complicated teacher-student relationship. His author bios strike a wry, self-deprecating tone that matches the candid, reflective voice readers meet on the page.

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