Early Icemen loaded hundreds of pounds of ice blocks into horse-drawn wagons while most people still slept. They drove to houses on their route, determining the size of each customer’s order from the sign in their window. Using metal tongs, they hauled each 25- to 100-pound block, often
Inventions and Discoveries of the Industrial Revolution defined today’s world.
Strange nineteenth-century customs, holidays and events echo in today’s world.
Victorian Age fashion pushed forward into greater freedom.
Advances in the Industrial Era spawned secret places, many of which you can still visit.
Nellie Bly and other Victorian Era visionaries blazed trails to your future.
Explore pets, plants and other 19th century natural wonders and people who protected them.
Rival journalists Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland raced around the world in 1889. Facing treacherous…
