Paperback. Good. ISBN 1851702679 9781851702671 [GB]

ISBN10: 1851702679, ISBN13: 9781851702671, [publisher: STUDIO EDNS.] Softcover The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
[Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1989]

ISBN10: 1851702679, ISBN13: 9781851702671, [publisher: STUDIO EDNS.] Softcover The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
[Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1989]

ISBN10: 1851702679, ISBN13: 9781851702671, [publisher: Studio Edns. 01/07/1989] Hardcover Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.
[Reading, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1989]

London: Bracken Books. Very Good/Very Good. Date: 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover. Thick 8vo 1851702679 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Black cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership inscription. Slight yellowing to pages. 681 pages including the index illustrated with over 432 black and white illustrations. The pace of scientific discovery in our own age is so rapid that it is easy to forget the many important developments that occurred during the last century. Within the space of a hundred years, the railways had transformed overland travel, sail had given way to steam at sea, electricity had been harnessed to provide lighting, heating, and power for machinery, and photography, telegraphy and sound-recording had brought about a revolution in human communication. In this volume the author, Robert Routledge, describes both the chief inventions of the 1800s and some of the scientific principles behind them in a manner that could be easily understood by the general reader. There are more than 400 illustrations covering every imaginable aspect of the subject, from the construction of Brunel's massive iron ship, the Great Eastern, (sadly sold for scrap), to Edison's original phonograph. And to remind us that some advances take longer than others, there is a map of one proposed route for the underwater Channel Tunnel intended to connect England and France, which dates from 1890. Routledge has arranged the individual articles by ...

ISBN10: 1851702679, ISBN13: 9781851702671, [publisher: Bracken Books] Hardcover 1989. Facsimile reprint. A very good copy with age tanned pages. The d/w is near fine.
[York, WA, Australia] [Publication Year: 1989]