Like of the time Ian Fleming wrote James Bond novels.
Issued as a booklet to accompany a set of Gramophone records. The first sucessful system of embossed reading for the blind. The Fleming-related material is hardly the oldest or rarest of what's here. They guessed at what Darwin was the first to prove. Ludorum at Eton two years running, something that had only been achieved once before him. Fleming was educated at Eton College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. No was handled by Peter O'Donnell, a couple of years before he launched his legendary strip, Modesty Blaise. Here is the earliest account of the Fleming "valve.
This has revolutionized both pure and applied chemistry. In 1865 Clerk Maxwell correlated electricity and light. Booth devoted a great deal of energy to this subject.