Ingenious inventions were pushed to outlandish extremes for the show's use of gadgets. For production designer Gemma Jackson and set decorator Tina Jones, collaborating on Joss Whedon’s supernatural ...

From the Publisher: Victorian Technology: Invention, Innovation, and the Rise of the Machine captures the extraordinary surge of energy and invention that catapulted 19th-century England into the ...

Charles Dickens is one of the best novelists of the Victorian Era, but he's not the only good thing to come out of that time. Contestants ring in... Victorian Inventions Our story begins with a quiz ...

Are tech bros the new Victorians? I’m sure they wouldn’t think so. In fact, I’m sure they’d be deeply insulted by the notion. The Victorians of our imagination are staid fuddy-duddies—and the captains ...

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The Wardian Case was an 1829 invention capable of keeping plants fresh for weeks without needing to be watered. It would later enable the British to transport tea seedlings from China to India. Watch ...

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