The year 1851 was the year the world held its breath. The Great Exhibition had turned Hyde Park into a cathedral of glass and iron, and the whole of Europe had come to London to see what the future...
Dr. Alistair Blackwood was twenty-five years old, a fellow of the Royal Society, and he had never seen anything so beautiful in his life. He stood in the nave of the Crystal Palace, surrounded by the machinery of empire—the looms and the engines and the telescopes and the microscopes, all of them proof that humanity had conquered nature and made it useful, and he felt a joy so pure and so...
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