The Ghost Map (Johnson, 2006)
1854 · Resource
Steven Johnson's account of the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak and how John Snow's map of the dead proved cholera travelled in water, years before germ theory could explain why.
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Around 1854
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Commodore Perry opens Japan (1853)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- British Raj (1858)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
- London sewer system / Bazalgette (1859)