H. G. Wells 
Argonauts of the Air 

Written just eight years before the Wright brothers made their first powered flight, ‚The Argonauts of the Air‘ follows the fortunes of eccentric millionaire, Monson. Monson is determined to build the world’s first flying machine. However, with his fortune dwindling and time against him, will he be successful in his mission? Another example of Wells‘ extraordinary prescience, ‚The Argonauts of the Air‘ is a thought-provoking and taut read, and possibly the only book to put London’s Worcester Park on the literary map.-