The Idea of a World Encyclopedia

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front cover of "The Idea of a World Encyclopedia"

Source: E.J. Pratt Library

The Idea of a World Encyclopedia

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1936

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Edward McKnight Kauffer

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The Hogarth Press

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Edward McKnight Kauffer

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This Day to Day Pamphlet (no. 35), originally a Friday Evening Discourse delivered at the Royal Institution, describes Well's vision of a "World Brain," a proto-Internet, that would sum human knowledge and writing.