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!
Profits From The Great Exhibition 1851 Fund Research Today
Profits From The Great Exhibition 1851 Fund Research Today
With Britain enjoying prosperity and relative peace, Prince Albert wanted to create the largest exhibition in history to show the Read More>...
The First Gigantic Ferris Wheel Had Steep Highs And Lows
The First Gigantic Ferris Wheel Had Steep Highs And Lows
He became known as “the man with wheels in his head.” They laughed at him. Engineers said his gigantic wheel Read More>...
Top 4 Victorian Era Eyewear Trends Rocked Fashionistas
Top 4 Victorian Era Eyewear Trends Rocked Fashionistas
The need for corrective lenses didn’t start with the Victorian Era. It was, however, a time when eyewear became widely Read More>...
Great Comets Sparked Skies Of Victorian Era
Great Comets Sparked Skies Of Victorian Era
Several great comets sparked the skies of the Victorian Era. There’s no official definition other than a “great comet” is Read More>...
Perseid Meteor Showers From Comet Swift-Tuttle
Perseid Meteor Showers From Comet Swift-Tuttle
When the Perseid Meteor Shower lights the August sky, you’ll see the spectacular result of debris from the Comet Swift-Tuttle, Read More>...
MAREA Follows First Transatlantic Cable By 150 Years
MAREA Follows First Transatlantic Cable By 150 Years
MAREA might be the biggest and baddest cable, but it follows the FIRST Transatlantic Cable by roughly 150 years. MAREA (Spanish for tide) will Read More>...
Four Weird Victorian Inventions That Made Shade
Four Weird Victorian Inventions That Made Shade
Unfortunately, these four weird Victorian inventions that made shade never saw the light of day. Unless parasols stage a comeback Read More>...
Bartholdi’s Statue Of Liberty Slated For Suez Canal
Bartholdi’s Statue Of Liberty Slated For Suez Canal
The Statue of Liberty by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi is a woman with a secret past. The Green Goddess as we Read More>...
Behold The Ice Cream Cone: Invention Of Necessity
Behold The Ice Cream Cone: Invention Of Necessity
Behold the ice cream cone: invention of necessity. The Great Debate over who invented the ice cream cone still rages on. Read More>...
Nancy Johnson Brought Ice Cream To The Masses
Nancy Johnson Brought Ice Cream To The Masses
By filing her patent No. 3254, in September of 1846, Nancy Johnson brought ice cream to the masses. With that Read More>...
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>...
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