Clockwork futures : the science of steampunk and the reinvention of the modern world / Brandy Schillace.
2017
PN3448.S73 L55 2017 (Mapit)
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Title
Clockwork futures : the science of steampunk and the reinvention of the modern world / Brandy Schillace.
Author
Schillace, Brandy, author.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
ISBN
9781681775180 (hardcover)
1681775182 (hardcover)
1681775182 (hardcover)
Published
New York : Pegasus Books, 2017.
Language
English
Description
xx, 300 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number
PN3448.S73 L55 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
509.034
Summary
"Airships and electric submarines, automatons and mesmerists. Welcome to the wild world of steampunk. It is all speculative. Or is it? Meet the intrepid souls who pushed Victorian technology to its limits and paved the way for our present age... In the mesmerizing Clockwork Futures, Brandy Schillace reveals the science behind steampunk, which is every bit as extraordinary as what we might find in the work of Jules Verne, and sometimes, just as fearful"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
The god of mathematics
Clockwork boy and the mother machine
Catching lightning in a bottle
Into dark country
The scientist and the engineer
He who powers the future
A wrench in the age of machinery
Of acid and accident
The science of Sherlock.
Clockwork boy and the mother machine
Catching lightning in a bottle
Into dark country
The scientist and the engineer
He who powers the future
A wrench in the age of machinery
Of acid and accident
The science of Sherlock.