I don't know why you revived this, but it gives me an opportunity to add
"The Diamond Lens" (in Atlantic Monthly, 1858) by Fitz-James O'Brien,
and "The Girl in the Golden Atom" (1919) by Ray Cummings.

-- Jeff, in Minneapolis

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