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 ...
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 ...
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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