Project Gutenberg 2010-05-30 Public domain in the USA. 84 Swain, Dwight V. 1915 1992 Henry Horn's X-Ray Eye Glasses Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "Henry Horn's X-Ray Eye Glasses" by Dwight V. Swain is a science fiction short story written during the early 1940s. The narrative follows the misadventures of Henry Horn, a quirky inventor who creates a pair of binoculars that operate on the "x-ray" principle—allowing the user to see through objects. The story unfolds amidst the backdrop of World War II, focusing on espionage and the unintended consequences of Horn's invention. The plot centers around Henry Horn and his colleague, the irate Professor Paulsen, who becomes infuriated when he discovers Horn peddling his x-ray binoculars to curious onlookers at a nudist camp. As the story progresses, the plot thickens when a red-haired man—an actual Nazi spy—purchases the glasses, leading to a race against time to retrieve sensitive military information he might have accessed. Coupled with humorous elements of their nudist encounters and several frantic moments, the story culminates in a showdown that reveals Professor Paulsen's quick wits as they confront the spy, turning an initially comedic invention into a decisive asset in the war effort against the Axis powers. (This is an automatically generated summary.) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32591/32591-h/images/cover.jpg en Science fiction Short stories Spy stories World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction Inventions -- Fiction PS Text World War II Browsing: History - Warfare Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 65939 65948 2024-09-14T03:54:22.042244 2023-09-14T08:52:58.676896 text/html text/html 62959 2021-01-06T16:36:40 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 176967 2021-01-06T16:36:40 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 175559 2024-09-14T03:54:24.320238 application/epub+zip 175298 2024-09-14T03:54:22.568253 application/epub+zip 86981 2024-09-14T03:54:22.296244 application/epub+zip 216584 2024-09-14T03:54:25.745283 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 209250 2024-09-14T03:54:24.055226 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 121287 2022-09-15T05:27:25.644256 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 56384 56288 2024-09-14T03:54:21.840255 2023-09-14T08:52:58.498899 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 56172 2021-01-06T16:36:40 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 21891 2021-01-06T16:36:40 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19841 2024-09-14T03:54:25.879230 application/rdf+xml 36622 2024-09-14T03:54:22.363224 image/jpeg 5699 2024-09-14T03:54:22.329251 image/jpeg 177926 2024-09-14T03:54:22.054250 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia More titles under South, Clark