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How The Victorians Took Us To The Moon

Patented: History of Inventions

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The Victorians Invented the Future

The Victorians also invented the future. And we really started to look at the future as something very different, not just an extension of the present. I wonder how that attitude towards doing science and technology and invention, we've sort of inherited from the Victorians. That's the idea that invention is the product of individuals and specific kinds of individuals who have very particular sorts of minds if you like.

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