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Have you ever heard of a four-footed bird? Can you really teach a dog to read? Where would you find a kangaroo crossed with a lion?In this brilliant and bizarre follow-up to Great Victorian Inventions, Caroline Rochford reveals the wondrous experiments and extraordinary theories of the great minds of science, engineering and natural history of the Victorian age. Some discoveries were authentic, some merely misguided assumptions giving rise to strange...
About the Author
Caroline Rochford runs a genealogy company with her historian husband. She has contributed several historical articles in the local press, and runs a blog covering historical and genealogical topics. She lives in Wakefield.
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Great Victorian Inventions: 'This rather charming and often revelatory history of inventions that we take for granted, and inventions we have never heard of, says a great deal about the Victorian age itself.'--The Independent on Sunday (08/17/2014)
Great Victorian Inventions: 'Looks at the most remarkable and surprisingly successful inventions of the 19th century'--The Express (08/28/2014)
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- PublisherAmberley Publishing
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1445645424
- ISBN 13 9781445645421
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- LanguageEnglish
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