The Lords of Invention

The Lords of Invention is the story of two inventors that takes place just after the turn-of-the-previous-century New York.The protagonist of this tale is a man named Augustus Scott. He is the inventor of such contraptions as the automentium machine the electromagtronicon and the steam-powered automaton.The antagonist is an aspiring inventor named Levi Pickett. Pickett lives in a basement and works a manual-labor job to pay for his menial and unhappy life. Unable to sell his ideas and find any other way out of his predicament he devises a plan to steal Augustus Scotts next great invention. What happens next is not only a battle of strength but a battle of minds.