1947

2 December
Victorian Mechanical Museum Curator Robert Fitzhugh is visited by a gentleman who identifies himself as Jonathan Rogers, an American private investigator working at the behest of a lawyer settling estate issues relating to a member of the Hawkins family.  He is searching for any documents and personal effects that may have belonged to Geoffrey Hawkins.  Fitzhugh later learns that Rogers is in fact Colonel Cameron Starkweather, an American military intelligence officer assigned to Project Nick, an U.S. military operation researching the feasibility of particle beam weapons.