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Despite the title of science historian Iwan Rhys Morus’s new book, the attentive reader may notice that human feet first stepped onto the Moon in 1969, over half a century after the end of
the Victorian era. Nevertheless, the technological revolution ushered in by the visionary innovators and engineers of that time laid some of the most important foundations for future
scientific and technical achievements, and paved the way for the event that has become one of the defining moments of human civilization.
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