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Victorian Technology

Author : Herbert Sussman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313082855
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Technology written by Herbert Sussman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-07-23 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enlightening history of 19th-century technology, focusing on the connections between invention and cultural values. Victorian Technology: Invention, Innovation, and the Rise of the Machine captures the extraordinary surge of energy and invention that catapulted 19th-century England into the position of the world's first industrialized nation. It was an astonishing transformation, one that shaped—and was shaped by—the values of the Victorian era, and that laid the groundwork for the consumer-based society in which we currently live. Filled with vivid details and fascinating insights into the impact of the Industrial Revolution on peoples' lives, Victorian Technology locates the forerunners of the defining technologies of the our time in 19th-century England: the computer, the Internet, mass transit, and mass communication. Readers will encounter the innovative thinkers and entrepreneurs behind history-making breakthroughs in communications (the transatlantic cable, wireless communication), mass production (the integrated factory), transportation (railroads, gliders, automobiles), and more.

Engines of Empire

Author : Douglas R. Burgess Jr.
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804798982
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Engines of Empire written by Douglas R. Burgess Jr. and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-04 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1859, the S.S. Great Eastern departed from England on her maiden voyage. She was a remarkable wonder of the nineteenth century: an iron city longer than Trafalgar Square, taller than Big Ben's tower, heavier than Westminster Cathedral. Her paddles were the size of Ferris wheels; her decks could hold four thousand passengers bound for America, or ten thousand troops bound for the Raj. Yet she ended her days as a floating carnival before being unceremoniously dismantled in 1889. Steamships like the Great Eastern occupied a singular place in the Victorian mind. Crossing oceans, ferrying tourists and troops alike, they became emblems of nationalism, modernity, and humankind's triumph over the cruel elements. Throughout the nineteenth century, the spectacle of a ship's launch was one of the most recognizable symbols of British social and technological progress. Yet this celebration of the power of the empire masked overconfidence and an almost religious veneration of technology. Equating steam with civilization had catastrophic consequences for subjugated peoples around the world. Engines of Empire tells the story of the complex relationship between Victorians and their wondrous steamships, following famous travelers like Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, and Jules Verne as well as ordinary spectators, tourists, and imperial administrators as they crossed oceans bound for the colonies. Rich with anecdotes and wry humor, it is a fascinating glimpse into a world where an empire felt powerful and anything seemed possible—if there was an engine behind it.

Victorian Steam

Author : Robert Carlisle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780858490161
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Steam written by Robert Carlisle and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published by Australian Railway Historical Society Victorian Division Inc.

The Real World of Victorian Steampunk

Author : Simon Webb
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526732866
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book The Real World of Victorian Steampunk written by Simon Webb and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the surprising nineteenth-century technology that inspires this literary and cultural movement: “I was very impressed by this book.” —SF Crowsnest In recent decades, steampunk has grown from a rather obscure subgenre of science fiction into a striking and distinctive style of fashion, art, design, and even music. It is in the written word, however, that steampunk has its roots—and in this book Simon Webb explores and examines the real inventions that underpin the fantasy. In doing so, he reveals a world unknown to most people today. Webb reveals the Victorian era as a surprising place: one of steam-powered airplanes, fax machines linking Moscow and St Petersburg, steam cars traveling at over 100 mph, electric taxis, and wireless telephones. It is, in short, the nineteenth century as you’ve never before seen it—a steampunk extravaganza of anachronistic technology and unfamiliar gadgets. Imagine Europe spanned by a mechanical internet, a telecommunication system of clattering semaphore towers capable of transmitting information across the continent in a matter of minutes. Consider too, the fact that a steam plane the size of a modern airliner took off in England in 1894. Drawing entirely on contemporary sources, we see how little-known developments in technology have been used as the basis for so many steampunk narratives. From seminal novels such as The Difference Engine to the steampunk fantasy of Terry Pratchett’s later works, this book shows that steampunk is at least as much solid fact as it is whimsical fiction.

The Victorian Steam Locomotive

Author : D. Kinnear Clark
Publisher : Wharncliffe
ISBN 13 : 1473830451
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book The Victorian Steam Locomotive written by D. Kinnear Clark and published by Wharncliffe. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a contemporary volume covering the history of the steam locomotive from 1804 1879. The work looks at the development and construction methods during the Victorian period. The volume of also has some good quality drawings and engineering diagrams

Victorian Steam

Author : Robin Jones
Publisher : Pixz
ISBN 13 : 9781906887896
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (878 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Steam written by Robin Jones and published by Pixz. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robin Jones looks at the steam engines that made Victorian Britain's railways the envy of the world.

Horror in the Age of Steam

Author : Carroll Clayton Savant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367711252
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Horror in the Age of Steam written by Carroll Clayton Savant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2023-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faced with scientific innovation and industrial advancement, Victorians sought new ways to deal with their new moment in history. Many turned to artistic movements of the past; there were authors, however, who created new forms of storytelling, the horror story, to illustrate the terrors of an age in transition.

Railways and the Victorian Imagination

Author : Michael J. Freeman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300079708
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book Railways and the Victorian Imagination written by Michael J. Freeman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the cultural and social effect that the railway had on nineteenth century society in Great Britain

Steam Australia

Author : Tim Fischer
Publisher : National Library of Australia
ISBN 13 : 0642279292
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Steam Australia written by Tim Fischer and published by National Library of Australia. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Steam Australia', Tim Fischer takes readers into the fascinating story of steam transportation over ten vital decades of transformation in Australia's history. The book also covers the great named express trains hauled by steam locomotives over the decades, such as 'Puffing Billy', Robert Gordon Menzies or 'The Ghan'. Special topics feature things such as Albury's 'break of gauge' platform (where two state track systems met), the Amiens branch line (running through Pozieres and Passchendaele stations in Queensland), some important characters such as C.Y. O'Connor and many more. The book is illustrated with over 300 exciting images from the superb National Library John Buckland collection of photography, many never seen before. Steam locomotives continue to operate as a key part of rail heritage tourism in Australia, demonstrating the ongoing legacy of these engines. The great age of steam in Australia and Fischer's salute to steam locomotion and all that it has achieved for this country is fascinating and captivating to both train novices and enthusiasts alike.

The Victorian Law Reports

Author : Victoria. Supreme Court
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 846 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Victorian Law Reports written by Victoria. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Victorian World

Author : Martin Hewitt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135694524
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book The Victorian World written by Martin Hewitt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-25 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses political history, the history of ideas, cultural history and art history, The Victorian World offers a sweeping survey of the world in the nineteenth century. This volume offers a fresh evaluation of Britain and its global presence in the years from the 1830s to the 1900s. It brings together scholars from history, literary studies, art history, historical geography, historical sociology, criminology, economics and the history of law, to explore more than 40 themes central to an understanding of the nature of Victorian society and culture, both in Britain and in the rest of the world. Organised around six core themes – the world order, economy and society, politics, knowledge and belief, and culture – The Victorian World offers thematic essays that consider the interplay of domestic and global dynamics in the formation of Victorian orthodoxies. A further section on ‘Varieties of Victorianism’ offers considerations of the production and reproduction of external versions of Victorian culture, in India, Africa, the United States, the settler colonies and Latin America. These thematic essays are supplemented by a substantial introductory essay, which offers a challenging alternative to traditional interpretations of the chronology and periodisation of the Victorian years. Lavishly illustrated, vivid and accessible, this volume is invaluable reading for all students and scholars of the nineteenth century.

The Victorian Statutes

Author : Victoria
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 990 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Victorian Statutes written by Victoria and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Victorian Steam Heritage Register

Author : Matthew Spencer Churchward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780730641513
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book The Victorian Steam Heritage Register written by Matthew Spencer Churchward and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Victorian Reports

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book The Victorian Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 1184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Steaming Into a Victorian Future

Author : Julie Anne Taddeo
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810885867
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Steaming Into a Victorian Future written by Julie Anne Taddeo and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores the social and cultural aspects of steampunk, examining the various manifestations of this multi-faceted genre, in order to better understand the steampunk sub-culture and its effect on--and interrelationship with--popular culture and the wider society.

Locomotives of the Victorian Railway

Author : Anthony Dawson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445677628
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Locomotives of the Victorian Railway written by Anthony Dawson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Dawson looks at some of the iconic, trailblazing locomotives that helped shape British railway history.

The Victorian Steam Locomotive

Author : G.D. Dempsey C.E.
Publisher : Wharncliffe
ISBN 13 : 1473823234
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book The Victorian Steam Locomotive written by G.D. Dempsey C.E. and published by Wharncliffe. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a contemporary volume covering the history of the steam locomotive from 1804 1879. The work looks at the development and construction methods during the Victorian period. The volume of also has some good quality drawings and engineering diagrams