The Romance of Modern Invention catches technology mid-leap: wireless telegraphy, submarines, mono-railways, colour photography and the first flying machines, each described by Archibald Williams in the eager non-technical style that made him Edwardian Britain’s favourite explainer of machinery.
Everything in it was breaking news once, and the wonder has kept better than the hardware. Download the free EPUB for the new century’s inventions as they looked when they were new.