Description |
1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 World's Biggest Glass Building -- ch. 2 Great Exhibition -- ch. 3 Crystal Palace Reborn -- ch. 4 Great Victorian Way -- ch. 5 When Daddy Long-Legs Ruled the Waves -- ch. 6 James Wyld's Monster Globe -- ch. 7 Biggest Camera in the World -- ch. 8 First Channel Tunnel -- ch. 9 England's Answer to the Eiffel Tower -- ch. 10 Under, Over and Across the Thames -- ch. 11 Shocking Cures for Every Ailment -- ch. 12 Photographic Detectives -- ch. 13 Frederic Kastner's Exploding Organ -- ch. 14 Trains in Drains -- ch. 15 How to Avoid Being Buried Alive -- ch. 16 London's Great Stink -- ch. 17 How London Got the Needle -- ch. 18 Phonographs, Graphophones and Gramophones -- ch. 19 Who Really Invented the Cinema? -- ch. 20 Age of the Velocipede -- ch. 21 Pneumatic Railways -- ch. 22 Rise and Fall of Electric Submarines -- ch. 23 Building Big Ben -- ch. 24 Amazing Clocks of Charles Shepherd -- ch. 25 From Today, Painting is Dead -- ch. 26 Victorian Flying Machines -- ch. 27 People Who Invented Christmas -- ch. 28 Amazing Memorial and the End of an Era. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Inventions -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Inventions. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
19th century |
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1800-1899 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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ISBN |
9781473849020 (electronic book) |
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1473849020 (electronic book) |
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9781473849013 |
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