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The Real World of Victorian Steampunk - Steam Planes and Radiophones (Paperback)
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The Real World of Victorian Steampunk - Steam Planes and Radiophones (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 3 180
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In the last few decades, steampunk has blossomed from being a
rather obscure and little-known subgenre of science fiction into a
striking and distinctive style of fashion, art, design and even
music. It is in the written word however that steampunk has its
roots and in this book Simon Webb explores and examines the real
inventions which underpin the fantasy. In doing so, he reveals a
world unknown to most people today. The Real World of Victorian
Steampunk shows the Victorian era to have been a surprising place;
one of steam-powered aeroplanes, fax machines linking Moscow and St
Petersburg, steam cars travelling at over 100 mph, electric taxis
and wireless telephones. It is, in short, the nineteenth century as
you have never before seen it; a steampunk extravaganza of
anachronistic technology and unfamiliar gadgets. Imagine Europe
spanned by a mechanical internet; a telecommunication system of
clattering semaphore towers capable of transmitting information
across the continent in a matter of minutes. Consider too, the fact
that a steam plane the size of a modern airliner took off in
England in 1894. Drawing entirely on contemporary sources, we see
how little-known developments in technology have been used as the
basis for so many steampunk narratives. From seminal novels such as
The Difference Engine, through to the steampunk fantasy of Terry
Pratchett's later works, this book shows that steampunk is at least
as much solid fact as it is whimsical fiction.
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