A city held to ransom. A brave few determined to fight. A race against time. Spring 1868 & the population of Boston is being terrorised by a series of mysterious attacks: first a magnetic storm causes ships in the harbour to collide in flames then in another bizarre catastrophe every piece of glass in the financial district spontaneously melts
- clocks windows eyeglasses. The citys fate relies on four young students: Civil War veteran Marcus Mansfield brash Bob Richards meticulous Edwin Hoyt & the eccentric but brilliant Ellen Swallow. Together they are The Technologists". In a climate of rising hysteria these four courageous individuals must unite against the forces of darkness to uncover the mastermind before he can stage his greatest outrage."