Clockwork Futures: The Science of Steampunk and the Reinvention of the Modern World - Couverture rigide

Schillace, Brandy

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1681775182 ISBN 13 : 9781681775180

Editeur : Pegasus Books, 2017

Synopsis

The gear turns, the whistle blows, and the billows expand with electro-mechanical whirring. The shimmering halo of Victorian technology lures us with the stuff of dreams, of nostalgia, of alternate pasts and futures that entice with the suave of James Bond and the savvy of Sherlock Holmes. Fiction, surely.But what if the unusual gadgetry so often depicted as steampunk actually made an appearance in history? Zeppelins and steam-trains; arc-lights and magnetic rays: these fascinating (and sometimes doomed) inventions bounded from the tireless minds of unlikely heroes. Such men and women served no secret societies and fought no super-villains, but they did build engines, craft automatons, and engineer a future they hoped would run like clockwork.Along the way, however, these same inventors ushered in a contest between desire and dread. From Newton to Tesla, from candle and clockwork to the age of electricity and manufactured power, technology teetered between the bright dials of fantastic futures and the dark alleyways of industrial catastrophe.Clockwork Futures

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pegasus Books
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1681775182
• ISBN 13: 9781681775180
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible