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Book:Name: Iwan Rhys Morus - How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon - The Story of the 19th-Century Innovators Who Forged Our Future (epub)
Format: epub
Size: 5.43 MB
Description:Title: How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon
Author: Iwan Rhys Morus
Language: angielski
Year: 2022
Subjects: History, Science, Technology, Nonfiction
Publisher: Pegasus Books
ISBN: 9780988192522
Total pages: 345 str.
Download from RapidGatorThe rich and fascinating history of the scientific revolution of the Victorian Era, leading to transformative advances in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
The Victorians invented the idea of the future. They saw it as an undiscovered country, one ripe for exploration and colonization. And to get us there, they created a new way of ordering and transforming nature, built on grand designs and the mass-mobilization of the resources of the British Empire.
With their expert culture of accuracy and precision, they created telegraphs and telephones, electric trams and railways, built machines that could think, and devised engines that could reach for the skies. When Cyrus Field's audacious plan to lay a telegraph cable across the Atlantic finally succeeded in 1866, it showed how science, properly disciplined, could make new worlds. As crowds flocked to the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the exhibitions its success inaugurated, they came to see the future made...
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