The Diamond Maker Herbert George Wells
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ISBN: 9781076034946ASIN: 1076034942
It was known since experiments of Antoine Lavoisier that diamond was a form of carbon.Wells's story appeared a few years after the claims of James Ballantyne Hannay in 1879 and Ferdinand Frédéric Henri Moissan in 1893, that they had made artificial diamonds. Moissan heated charcoal (a form of carbon) and iron in a furnace until the iron melted; then rapidly cooled, the iron would generate high pressure and transform the charcoal into diamonds. Others tried to repeat this experiment in later years, and very small diamonds were created; commercially successful production of synthetic diamonds was not achieved until the 1950s.

ハーバート・ジョージ・ウェルズ は、イギリスの著作家。特にサイエンス・フィクション(SF)の黎明期に活躍した小説家として知られ、ジュール・ヴェルヌと共に「SFの父」と評される。ノンフィクションの著作物も多く、社会批評、政治、歴史、一般科学、風刺、伝記、自伝の作品が含まれる。日本でも古くから「H・G・ウエルズ」の名前で受容されてきた。