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Carregando... Victorian Inventionsde Leonard de Vries, Ilonka van Amstel (Editor)
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De Vries’s stories come from three sources—Scientific American, De Natuur, and La Nature—and are divided into five major categories: transport, electricity, optics, telephony, and of course, miscellaneous. They span many areas of daily life from 1865 to 1900. Right off the bat, there is the Pedespeed, a pair of small side wheels one attaches to one’s shoes to skedaddle faster through the city. Then, there are devices to mechanically deliver food to one’s table, to bore tunnels through solid rock, to project advertisements into the night sky, to simultaneously play the cello and piano, and so on and so on.
This coffee table book offers a varied glimpse into the past. From the photographic rifle to the theatrophones, each invention brought something of the amazing into people’s lives. Much like today’s technology, each item seems slightly weird but useful in the right environment. De Vries’s writing is many time secondary to the large illustrations, but interesting nonetheless. A fun and inviting book. ( )