Victorian jellies weren’t just elaborate showpieces—they embodied a deep intersection of food, science, and class. Extracting ...

He begins by showing how nearly all the scientific and technological advances we think of as having emerged ex nihilo in the late 20th century in fact had their origin in the 19th century. Mr.

In the age before warning labels and liability waivers, scientific experimentation often looked like something between a séance and a rave. Case in point: this glorious 1807 illustration from a ...

Indeed, a striking similarity between the Victorian era and modern times is that incorrect health ideas didn’t die easily.“Even once we did know the truth about disease vectors, the ...

IN a lecture, “A Century of Progress : Men, Manners, Inventions”, given before the Lancastrian Frank-land Society on January 15, Dr. B. F. Armstrong drew a stimulating comparison between the ...

A Short History of the Progress of Scientific Chemistry in our own Times. By Prof. W. A. Tilden ... has given us separate histories of the main lines of chemical progress during the Victorian era.