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on1352452033 |
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OCoLC |
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20221213144524.0 |
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221201s2022 nyua e b 001 0 eng d |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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ZJI |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
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rda |
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ZJI |
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ZJI |
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JVK |
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YDX |
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BDX |
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TOH |
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LIV |
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NFG |
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1296676360 |
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1296911345 |
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1296944620 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781639362608 |
| Qualifying information |
(hardcover) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
1639362606 |
| Qualifying information |
(hardcover) |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)1352452033 |
| Canceled/invalid control number |
(OCoLC)1296676360 |
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(OCoLC)1296911345 |
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(OCoLC)1296944620 |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
609.2 |
| Item number |
M891 |
| 049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) |
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| Holding library |
NFGA |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Morus, Iwan Rhys, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1964- |
| Relator term |
author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
How the Victorians took us to the moon : |
| Remainder of title |
the story of the 19th-century innovators who forged our future / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Iwan Rhys Morus. |
| 246 3# - VARYING FORM OF TITLE |
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| Title proper/short title |
How the Victorians took us to the moon : the story of the nineteenth-century innovators who forged the future |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE STATEMENTS |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
New York : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Pegasus Books, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
2022. |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE STATEMENTS |
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| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
©2022. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
viii, 339 pages : |
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illustrations (black and white) ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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text |
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txt |
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rdacontent |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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still image |
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sti |
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rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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unmediated |
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n |
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rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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volume |
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nc |
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rdacarrier |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographic resources (pages 297-322) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Prologue: Inventing the future -- Science wars -- Practical men -- Measure for measure -- Showing off -- Fueling the future -- Surveillance -- Calculating people -- Flying high. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
The 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 fact--to see the future being built before their eyes. In this rich and absorbing book, a distinguished historian of science tells the story of how this future was made. From Charles Babbage's dream of mechanizing mathematics to Isambard Kingdom Brunel's tunnel beneath the Thames to Georges Cayley's fantasies of powered flight and Nikola Tesla's visions of an electrical world, it is a story of towering personalities, clashing ambitions, furious rivalries and conflicting cultures--a rich tapestry of remarkable lives that transformed the world beyond recognition and ultimately took mankind to the Moon. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Inventors |
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History |
| Chronological subdivision |
19th century. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Technological innovations |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
19th century. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Science |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
19th century. |
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83821 |
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