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The ingenious victorians : weird and wonderful ideas from the age of innovation /
We all know that some of the greatest inventions came from the Victorian age, the successors of which are still with us today. But this book is not entirely about those. Its more about some of the weird and wonderful inventions, ideas and projects some successful, others less so that have largely be...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Barnsley, South Yorkshire :
Pen & Sword History,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 World's Biggest Glass Building
- ch. 2 Great Exhibition
- ch. 3 Crystal Palace Reborn
- ch. 4 Great Victorian Way
- ch. 5 When Daddy Long-Legs Ruled the Waves
- ch. 6 James Wyld's Monster Globe
- ch. 7 Biggest Camera in the World
- ch. 8 First Channel Tunnel
- ch. 9 England's Answer to the Eiffel Tower
- ch. 10 Under, Over and Across the Thames
- ch. 11 Shocking Cures for Every Ailment
- ch. 12 Photographic Detectives
- ch. 13 Frederic Kastner's Exploding Organ
- ch. 14 Trains in Drains
- ch. 15 How to Avoid Being Buried Alive
- ch. 16 London's Great Stink
- ch. 17 How London Got the Needle
- ch. 18 Phonographs, Graphophones and Gramophones
- ch. 19 Who Really Invented the Cinema?
- ch. 20 Age of the Velocipede
- ch. 21 Pneumatic Railways
- ch. 22 Rise and Fall of Electric Submarines
- ch. 23 Building Big Ben
- ch. 24 Amazing Clocks of Charles Shepherd
- ch. 25 From Today, Painting is Dead
- ch. 26 Victorian Flying Machines
- ch. 27 People Who Invented Christmas
- ch. 28 Amazing Memorial and the End of an Era.