HSPLS site	Login My List - 0 Help
	Search   My Account   Databases   HI Newspaper   eBooks/Audiobooks   Learning   PC Reservation   Reading Program

Basic Advanced Power History

Search:  Title BrowseAuthor BrowseSubject BrowseBest Seller BrowseMusic Title BrowseVideo/DVD Title BrowseJournal/Newspaper Title BrowseSerial Title BrowseSeries Browse (includes Bestseller List)General KeywordTitle KeywordAuthor KeywordSubject KeywordName KeywordSeries KeywordScore Title BrowseTalking Book Title BrowseAwards Note BrowseBib No.Barcode       Refine Search     > You're searching: HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM

Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Morus, Iwan Rhys, 1964- author.     Subjects     Inventors -- History -- 19th century.     Inventions -- History -- 19th century.     Technological innovations -- History -- 19th century.     Science -- History -- 19th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Morus, Iwan Rhys, 1964- author.       by title:      How the Victorians t...         MARC Display

How the Victorians took us to the moon : the story of the 19th-century innovators who forged our future / Iwan Rhys Morus. by Morus, Iwan Rhys, 1964- author. New York : Pegasus Books, 2022. Subjects Inventors -- History -- 19th century.   Inventions -- History -- 19th century.   Technological innovations -- History -- 19th century.   Science -- History -- 19th century. ISBN:  9781639362608 (hardcover) : 1639362606 (hardcover) Description:  viii, 339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Edition:  First Pegasus Books cloth edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 609.22 Mo Checked In Add Copy to MyList North Kohala Public Library Adult Nonfiction 609.22 Mo Checked In Add Copy to MyList

Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.