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‎Victorian Inventions Compiled in Collaboration with Ilonka van Amstel‎

‎John Murray, London Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1992 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's red and grey printed wrappers, illustrated by some black and white inventions In-4 1 vol. - 192 pages‎

‎many black and white text-figures reprinted edition, 1992 Contents, Chapitres : Introduction - Contents - Transport - Electricity - Optics - Telephone - Miscellaneous - cf : Velocipede - Propeller-Driven Lifebuoy - Steam-Horse - Tricycle - City railway - Broadway tunnel in New York - Pneumatic transport - Stepped platform railway - Electric tramcar - Flying-machine, aero-locomotion, aerial steam-machine - Balloon voyage to the North Pole - Death by parachute - Cole's aerial vessel - Tatin's aeroplane - Dirigible balloons (aérostation, ballons, dirigeables) - Tissandier dirigible airship - Campbell airship, Pennington, Stark's motor - Flying experiments of Otto Lilienthal - Maxim steam flying machine - Suspension bridge - Straub's plan for a sub-river tunnel - Bessemer saloon steamer - Tucker's surf boat - Life-saving device - Goubet's submarine - Chapman's roller vessel - Eiffel Tower - Amiot's stair-climber - Edison's electric lamp - Electric lift - Electric searchlight - Tesla's experiments with alternating high voltage currents - Electric chair - Rontgen's X-rays - Telescopes - Photography - Photographic rifle - Tachyscope and kinetoscope - Praxinoscope - Stereoscopic projection - Mareorama - Cineorama air-balloon panorama - Graham Bell telephone - Theatrophone - Photophone - Telegraphy and so on... near fine copy, the editor's binding is fine, inside is fine, clean and unmarked‎