#Edwin F Northrup

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Zero to Eighty: Being my Lifetime Doings, Reflections, and Inventions; also my Journey around the Moon. Akkad Pseudoman [pseud.]. Edwin F Northrup. Princeton, New Jersey: Scientific Publishing Company, 1937. First edition. Original dust jacket. 

A very technical fictional account of the invention of a spacecraft and circumnavigation of the Moon by the inventor of the Ajax-Northrup high-frequency induction furnace. The experiments begin in 1945 and the flight occurs in 1961.