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Saved From Starvation by Wheatfields 1970

In 1905, a lecture at the Royal Institution, Professor Silvanus P. Thompson referred to the increase demand for wheat would cause a world wide shortage in thirty years. The artist has depicted the future mechanical and chemical means in which the production of it's daily bread under controlled conditions

Picture No
13542940
Media ID
48539982
Size
3955px x 5793px (5.8MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Drawn by H. Janot in The Sphere', 20 July 1907, page 55 and also in The Illustrated London News', 1 April 1905, page 466
Date
1905 predicted future 1970

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