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02307aam a2200349 i 4500 001 81D89EFA93D911ED8CF4B29E31ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230114010102 008 221118r20222022nyua b 001 0deng d 010 $a bl2022037031 020 $a 1639362606 : HRD 020 $a 9781639362608 : HRD 040 $a NjBwBT $b eng $c NjBwBT $e rda $d NjBwBT $d SILO 050 14 $a Q125 $b .M57 2022 082 04 $a 509/.034 $2 23/eng/20221118 100 1 $a Morus, Iwan Rhys, $d 1964- $e author. 245 10 $a How the Victorians took us to the moon : $b the story of the 19th-century innovators who forged our future / $c Iwan Rhys Morus. 250 $a First Pegasus Books cloth edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Pegasus Books, $c 2022. 300 $a viii, 339 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-322) and index. 520 $a "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. 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 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Science $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Inventors $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Technological innovations $x History $y 19th century. 775 08 $i Reproduction of (manifestation): 775 08 $a Morus, Iwan Rhys, 1964- $t How the Victorians took us to the moon $d London : Icon Books, 2022 $z 9781785789281 941 $a 3 952 $l CMPE792 $d 20230629015237.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20230207011553.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20230203010540.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=81D89EFA93D911ED8CF4B29E31ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search