Victorian Inventions

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1975 oversize trade paperback reprint edition (of a work first published in 1971 in Holland) this edition in English John Murray London U.K. 192 pages. An absolute gas of a book beautifully published 192 total vintage illustrations. Includes Victorian-era inventions in the fields of: transport electricity optics a new gizmo called the telephone and miscellaneous new gee-whizzes which offered society something to think about. This era sometimes referred to as the explosive age of invention gives us: "flying machines electricity photography cinematography the x-ray telephone phonographs typewriters the engineering of the Eiffel Tower and the Brooklyn and Forth Bridges underground travel gas steam and electric locomotion and contrivances for life-saving beauty health and talking dolls." Absolutely wonderful.