The Lords of Invention (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781736425916)

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 Scott's next great invention. What happens next is not only a battle of strength but a battle of minds.