Wireless (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- First Published: 1902
- Type of Plot: Fantasy
- Time of Work: 1902
- Setting: An unnamed English seaside town, possibly Teignmouth
- Principal Characters: The narrator, Mr. Cashell, Sr., Mr. Cashell, Jr., John Shaynor, Fanny Brand
- Genres: Short fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Supernatural, Science or scientists, Experiments
- Locales: England
The Story
“Wireless” is on one level the story of a failed experiment. Mr. Cashell, Jr., has invited the narrator to join him in an attempt to send radio transmissions between his uncle's shop and an operator in Poole, some distance away. At first, Poole does not come through, and by the time it does, the narrator has lost interest and has decided to go home. In the interim, all that has been heard on Cashell's radio receiver is the sound of two warships failing to communicate with each other—their transmitters working but their receivers out of tune—ending with the...
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