Parallel lives
Forgotten: the brilliant yet disfigured girl whose genius facilitated the Industrial RevolutionHistory records that a certain celebrated eighteenth century inventor and engineer was an only child. However, recent cataloging of previously unseen family documents has unearthed a hitherto unknown diary of one who appears to be his younger sister. Though written in a complex secret cypher, I have successfully de-coded several tracts, the most illuminating of which appears below. January 14th, 1784 After turning down th...
