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On a calm Sunday morning more than 20 years ago, the residents of Bell Island, Newfoundland, heard an odd, high-pitched hum, immediately followed by a sudden and terrifying blast that resounded for hundreds of miles. The blast was followed by a host of unexplained electrical phenomena: small “balls” of lightning, blue hail, exploding televisions, scorched earth. The Invisible Machine seeks to unravel the mystery of the Bell Island “boom” and, in doing so, examine the expanding frontiers of electromagnetic science.
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