What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

Actually two books which takes place just before American revolution an e l element is discovered that allows for things like fax machines to be invented at a far earlier time

Try looking through the books by Harry Turtledove He writes a lot of alternate history fiction. He's got one set around the American Revolution called The United States of Atlantis

Kitten wrote: "Actually two books which takes place just before American revolution an e l element is discovered that allows for things like fax machines to be invented at a far earlier time"

"Anti-Ice" by Stephen Baxter? http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64...

P.S. Here's a list of alternate history books and stories sorted by "date of divergence" - http://www.uchronia.net/bib.cgi/diver...

I've read most of Turtledove's oeuvre and will guess that this is not in it. Specifically, not the USoA books.

edit: But Andy's suggestion of _Anti-Ice_ sure looks like it might be what you're looking for...

Anti-ice

remembered one of the characters is Ben Franklin.

Newton's Cannon I found it yay I just had to search for fiction books with ben franklin in them

Glad you found your book (I think I that one on my shelf, waiting to be read)