The richand fascinating history of the scientific revolution of the Victorian Era, leadingto transformative advances in the twentieth and twenty-firstcenturies. The Victorians invented the idea of the future. They saw it as anundiscovered country, one ripe for exploration and colonization. Andto get usthere, 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, builtmachines that could think, and devised engines that could reach for the skies.When Cyrus Field's audacious planto lay a telegraphcable across the Atlantic finally succeeded in 1866, it showedhow science, properly disciplined, could make new worlds. As crowds flocked tothe Great Exhibition of 1851and the exhibitions its success inaugurated, theycame to see the future made fact—to see the future being built beforetheir 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 George's Cayley's fantasiesof powered flight and Nikola Tesla's visions of an electrical world, it is a story oftowering personalities, clashing ambitions, furiousrivalries and conflicting cultures—a rich tapestry of remarkable lives that transformed theworld beyond recognition and ultimately took mankind to the Moon
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How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon
The Story of the 19th-Century Innovators Who Forged Our Future
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How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon
The Story of the 19th-Century Innovators Who Forged Our Future
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HistoryTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Prologue: Inventing the Future
- Chapter 1: Science Wars
- Chapter 2: Practical Men
- Chapter 3: Measure for Measure
- Chapter 4: Showing Off
- Chapter 5: Fuelling the Future
- Chapter 6: Surveillance
- Chapter 7: Calculating People
- Chapter 8: Flying High
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Notes
- Index
- Copyright
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