Great Victorian Inventions: Novel Contrivances and Industrial Revolutions

Who Invented The Flying Machine? Was The Titanic Really The First 'unsinkable' Ship? How Would One Use A Phonoscope? Using Old Victorian Documents, Caroline Rochford Takes The Reader On A Guided Tour Of Hundreds Of Fascinating Nineteenth-century Inventions From Across The Globe, Some Strange And Some Remarkably Familiar. Think Solar Power Is A Modern Concept? Think Again! Today Everyone Has A Camera, But Imagine The Excitement Of Taking A Snap Of A Giraffe Hotel! This Is A Surprising Journey, Taking The Reader On A Trip From The Clouds To The Bottom Of The Ocean, With Stops Everywhere In Between. Discover The Use Of Whispering Machines, Crime-fighting Streetlamps And Over 200 Other Remarkable Victorian Inventions.