Victorian Science and Engineering: Portrayed in the Illustrated London News (History/18th/19th Century History)

Chew, Kenneth and Wilson, Anthony

ISBN 10: 0750903260 / ISBN 13: 9780750903264

Published by Alan Sutton, 1993

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Type: Book pp xl, 148. 2nd printing.

Seller Inventory # 020073

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Victorian Science and Engineering: Portrayed in the Illustrated London News (History/18th/19th Century History)
• Publisher: Alan Sutton
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0750903260
• ISBN 13: 9780750903264
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • British History and Politics

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Synopsis

Reflecting an age of enormous advances in science, engineering and technology, the illustrations reproduced here cover triumphs, disasters and developments of the period -- such as the launch of the SS Great Britain, the Tay Bridge disaster and the invention of the telephone and phonograph -- from the pages of the Illustrated London News.