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020			_a9781639362608 _q(hardcover)
020			_a1639362606 _q(hardcover)
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100	1		_aMorus, Iwan Rhys, _d1964- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aHow the Victorians took us to the moon : _bthe story of the 19th-century innovators who forged our future / _cIwan Rhys Morus.
246	3		_aHow the Victorians took us to the moon : the story of the nineteenth-century innovators who forged the future
264		1	_aNew York : _bPegasus Books, _c2022.
264		4	_c©2022.
300			_aviii, 339 pages : _billustrations (black and white) ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographic resources (pages 297-322) and index.
505	0		_aPrologue: Inventing the future -- Science wars -- Practical men -- Measure for measure -- Showing off -- Fueling the future -- Surveillance -- Calculating people -- Flying high.
520			_aThe 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	_aInventors _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aTechnological innovations _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aScience _xHistory _y19th century. _983821
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