How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon: The Story of the Nineteenth-Century Innovators Who Forged the Future, UK Edition by Iwan Rhys Morus
English | November 3rd, 2022 | ISBN: 1785789287 | 352 pages | True EPUB | 10.12 MB
By the end of the Victorian era, the world had changed irrevocably. The speed of the technological development brought about between 1800 and 1900 was completely unprecedented in human history. And as the Victorians looked to the skies and beyond as the next frontier to be explored and conquered, they were inventing, shaping and moulding the very idea of the future.