From Galaxies to Turbines 
Subtitle: Science, Technology and the Parsons Family
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: January 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 596
ISBN-13: 9780750305822
Subjects: Biography: general; Inventions & inventors; Popular science; Scientists - Inventors; History Of Science; History Of Technology; Science; Biography / Autobiography; Scientists - General; Science/Mathematics; Astronomy - General; Science / Physics; Technology; General; History; 19th century; Great Britain
First sentence: After the great 1851 Exhibition had ended and that extraordinary building of iron and glass, the Crystal Palace, had been removed to another site away from Hyde Park in London, a permanent exhibition centre and educational complex was developed nearby.