How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon: The Story of the 19th-Century Innovators Who Forged Our Future

Iwan Rhys Morus

77 Bewertungen von Goodreads

Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Pegasus Books, 2022

1639362606 / 9781639362608

  • Hardcover
  • Gebraucht
Alle Details anzeigen

Anbieter: World of Books (was SecondSale), Montgomery, IL, USAWorld of Books (was SecondSale)

Verkäufer/-in mit 5 Sternen

Verkäufer:in bei AbeBooks seit 20. Dezember 2007

Hardcover

Zustand: Gebraucht - Befriedigend

EUR 4,44

 Versand gratis 
Versand innerhalb von USA

Anzahl: 3 verfügbar

In den Warenkorb
30 Tage kostenlose Rückgabe

Artikelbeschreibung des Verkäufers

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 George's 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.…

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 00106837872

Titel
How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon: The Story of the 19th-Century Innovators Who Forged Our Future
Autor
Iwan Rhys Morus
Verlag
Pegasus Books
Erscheinungsjahr
2022
Zustand
Good
Einband
Hardback
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
1639362606
ISBN-13
9781639362608

World of Books (was SecondSale)

Montgomery, IL, USA

Verkäufer/-in mit 5 Sternen

Verkäufer:in bei AbeBooks seit 20. Dezember 2007

Versandkosten innerhalb von USA

Artikel4 bis 12 Werktage3 bis 6 Werktage
Erster ArtikelEUR 0,00EUR 9,77
Die Versandzeiten werden von den Verkäuferinnen und Verkäufern festgelegt. Sie variieren je nach Versanddienstleister und Standort. Sendungen, die den Zoll passieren, können Verzögerungen unterliegen. Eventuell anfallende Abgaben oder Gebühren sind von der Käuferin bzw. dem Käufer zu tragen. Die Verkäuferin bzw. der Verkäufer kann Sie bezüglich zusätzlicher Versandkosten kontaktieren, um einen möglichen Anstieg der Versandkosten für Ihre Artikel auszugleichen.

Zahlungsarten

  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • American Express
  • Carte Bleue
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay

Shopbeschreibung

Founded in 2002, World of Books is a leading online destination for buying and selling both preloved and new books, committed to making sustainable reading accessible to all. With a mission to help people read more and waste less, World of Books offers a huge range of affordable, high-quality books — giving both new and preloved titles a second life. The company also operates World of Books – Sell Your Books, an easy-to-use platform that allows customers to trade in unwanted books for cash, helping to keep books in circulation while promoting sustainability. As a Certified B Corp, World of Books is driven by a vision to become the world’s largest and most sustainable dedicated online bookstore. The company measures its success through the positive environmental impact it creates, the value it provides to customers, and its ability to operate profitably while supporting its sustainable mission …

Unternehmensdaten der Verkäuferin bzw. des Verkäufers

SBYB, Inc.

900 Knell Rd
Montgomery, IL USA 60538