WEIRD SCIENCE
Weird Science explores amazing ideas of the Victorian Era. It delves into inventions, sciences, engineering, architecture and countless discoveries. It was a turning point in the history of human creativity. It was a time of outrageous developments. Weird science led to daily inventions and discoveries. Some were major successes and some were disastrous flops!
Joseph Faber’s Marvelous Talking Machine, Euphonia
Joseph Faber’s Marvelous Talking Machine, Euphonia
Joseph Faber’s Marvelous Talking Machine, later called Euphonia, was not just another pretty face of the Victorian Era. Yes, she Read More>...
Mutoscopes Become “What The Butler Saw” Machines
Mutoscopes Become “What The Butler Saw” Machines
Why did the Mutoscope, an early ancestor of motion pictures, come to be known as the “What The Butler Saw” Read More>...
Jan Zieba’s Panoramic Photography: Churches of Peace
Jan Zieba’s Panoramic Photography: Churches of Peace
Jan Zieba’s extraordinary panoramic photography lets you explore interiors of the Churches of Peace in Poland. Granted, they were built Read More>...
The Harem Effect On Female Scientists In The Victorian Era
The Harem Effect On Female Scientists In The Victorian Era
The “Harem Effect” on female scientists in the Victorian Era opened some doors and closed many others. In short, the Read More>...
Williamina Fleming: Maid To Victorian Era Astronomer
Williamina Fleming: Maid To Victorian Era Astronomer
Williamina Fleming started her career as a maid to Edward Charles Pickering. He recognized Fleming’s talent and gave her Read More>...
Victorian Era Fashion: Green Gowns To Die For!
Victorian Era Fashion: Green Gowns To Die For!
Victorian Era Fashion loved the color green. It’s the color of springtime and good health–even Christmas. As The Industrial Revolution Read More>...
Nellie Bly Sent Victorian Era Tweets From Her Race
Nellie Bly Sent Victorian Era Tweets From Her Race
Granted, Nellie Bly’s telegrams were not moving at tweet speed. Still, transmission was vastly improved from the time of the Read More>...
Victorian Era Places: Then And Now
Victorian Era Places: Then And Now
In case you missed “Then and Now” photographic projects, they offer amazing portals to the past. You can see Victorian Read More>...
Aida de Acosta Was The First Female To Pilot A Powered Aircraft
Aida de Acosta Was The First Female To Pilot A Powered Aircraft
Aida de Acosta kept her secret for 29 years. She was the first woman to fly a powered air ship Read More>...
Santos-Dumont Creates First “Flying Car”: Victorian Era
Santos-Dumont Creates First “Flying Car”: Victorian Era
Alberto Santos-Dumont was a pioneer aviator, brilliant engineer, international celebrity and the toast of the town in Belle Epoque Paris Read More>...
Victorian Era Trick Photography: Headless Portraits
Victorian Era Trick Photography: Headless Portraits
If you think the people of the Victorian Era didn’t know how to have a good time, take a look at Read More>...
Top Ten Eiffel Tower Facts Revealed Along With A Few Victorian Secrets
Top Ten Eiffel Tower Facts Revealed Along With A Few Victorian Secrets
Many ladies of the Era kept Victorian Secrets “close to their corsets.” Completed in 1889, The Eiffel Tower, a.k.a. the Iron Read More>...
Victorian Airships And Dirigibles Meet Amazon Prime Air
Victorian Airships And Dirigibles Meet Amazon Prime Air
We had to take a second look at this cartoon, titled “Not Yet, But Soon.” Is it a Victorian Era laugh Read More>...
Henri Giffard Flew 35,000 Over The Paris World Fair 1878 In His Radical Hot Air Balloon
Henri Giffard Flew 35,000 Over The Paris World Fair 1878 In His Radical Hot Air Balloon
In 1878-79, Henri Giffard launched a massive hot air balloon from the Tuileries Garden in Paris. He wanted to give Read More>...
Stonehenge Auctioned: Chubb’s Wife Returned His Gift
Stonehenge Auctioned: Chubb’s Wife Returned His Gift
How in the world was Stonehenge auctioned? It was September 21, 1915. Sir Cecil Chubb, a successful barrister and businessman living Read More>...
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- Two Petrol Powered French Vehicles Won The First Car Race For Comfort Plus Speed
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- First Female Field Engineer Emily Warren Roebling Completed Construction Of The Brooklyn Bridge
- Hot Air Balloonist Eduard Spelterini Paved The Way For Google Maps With Dramatic Aerial Photography
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- Victorian Era Mermaids Flourished With Barnum’s Fake News And Alternative Facts
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- Philadelphia Centennial Exposition 1876 Introduced Everything From Bananas To Telephones
- Victorian Era Electric Cars And The Ladies Who Loved Them
- Frederick Richard Simms Designed First Armored Cars
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- Winifred Edgerton Merrill Cheered As First American Woman Awarded Mathematics Ph.D.
- Harriet Quimby Set Multiple Records Including First Licensed Female Pilot In America
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- Mary Anning Discoveries Including Ichthyosaur Rocked Paleontology
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- Victorian Era Crystal Palace Dinosaurs Roam Earth To This Day
- Profits From The Great Exhibition 1851 Fund Research Today
- The First Giant Ferris Wheel Had Steep Highs And Lows
- Perseid Meteor Showers From Comet Swift-Tuttle
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- Bartholdi’s Statue Of Liberty Slated For Suez Canal
- Nancy Johnson Brought Ice Cream To The Masses
- Joseph Faber’s Marvelous Talking Machine, Euphonia
- Mutoscopes Become “What The Butler Saw” Machines
- Jan Zieba’s Panoramic Photography: Churches of Peace
- The Harem Effect On Female Scientists In The Victorian Era
- Williamina Fleming: Maid To Victorian Era Astronomer
- Victorian Era Fashion: Green Gowns To Die For!
- Nellie Bly Sent Victorian Era Tweets From Her Race
- Victorian Era Places: Then And Now
- Aida de Acosta Was The First Female To Pilot A Powered Aircraft
- Santos-Dumont Creates First “Flying Car”: Victorian Era
- Victorian Era Trick Photography: Headless Portraits
- Top Ten Eiffel Tower Facts Revealed Along With A Few Victorian Secrets
- Victorian Airships And Dirigibles Meet Amazon Prime Air
- Henri Giffard Flew 35,000 Over The Paris World Fair 1878 In His Radical Hot Air Balloon
- Stonehenge Auctioned: Chubb’s Wife Returned His Gift
- Message In A Bottle Travels More Than A Century
- 1858: Elon Musk Of The Transatlantic Cable
- Amelia Earhart: Our Favorite On National Aviation Day
- The Quagga’s Last Day On Earth: August 12, 1883
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- The Saga Of Hurricane Bill
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