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Index
Cover
Dedication
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction to an Era
Chapter 1: The World’s Biggest Glass Building
Chapter 2: The Great Exhibition
Chapter 3: The Crystal Palace Reborn
Chapter 4: The Great Victorian Way
Chapter 5: When Daddy Long-Legs Ruled the Waves
Chapter 6: James Wyld’s Monster Globe
Chapter 7: The Biggest Camera in the World
Chapter 8: The First Channel Tunnel
Chapter 9: England’s Answer to the Eiffel Tower
Chapter 10: Under, Over and Across the Thames
Chapter 11: Shocking Cures for Every Ailment
Chapter 12: Photographic Detectives
Chapter 13: Frédéric Kastner’s Exploding Organ
Chapter 14: Trains in Drains
Chapter 15: How to Avoid Being Buried Alive
Chapter 16: London’s Great Stink
Chapter 17: How London Got the Needle
Chapter 18: Phonographs, Graphophones and Gramophones
Chapter 19: Who Really Invented the Cinema?
Chapter 20: The Age of the Velocipede
Chapter 21: Pneumatic Railways
Chapter 22: The Rise and Fall of Electric Submarines
Chapter 23: Building Big Ben
Chapter 24: The Amazing Clocks of Charles Shepherd
Chapter 25: From Today, Painting is Dead
Chapter 26: Victorian Flying Machines
Chapter 27: The People Who Invented Christmas
Chapter 28: An Amazing Memorial and the End of an Era
Bibliography
Picture credits
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