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Author Wade, John, 1945- author.

Title The ingenious victorians : weird and wonderful ideas from the age of innovation / John Wade.

Publication Info. Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword History, 2016.

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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.
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Subject Inventions -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Inventions.
Great Britain.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
ISBN 9781473849020 (electronic book)
1473849020 (electronic book)
9781473849013