ABSTRACT
From chatelaines to whale blubber, ice making machines to stained glass, this six-volume collection will be of interest to the scholar, student or general reader alike - anyone who has an urge to learn more about Victorian things. The set brings together a range of primary sources on Victorian material culture and discusses the most significant developments in material history from across the nineteenth century. The collection will demonstrate the significance of objects in the everyday lives of the Victorians and addresses important questions about how we classify and categorise nineteenth-century things.
This collection brings together a range of primary sources on Victorian material and culture. This third volume, ‘Invention and Technology’, will look at a variety of Victorian inventions, both foundational and short-lived.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |13 pages
Introduction To Volume III
part 1|31 pages
The march of invention
chapter 1|3 pages
Alexander Somerville, The Autobiography of a Working Man [Extract]
chapter 2|3 pages
John Stoughton, The Palace of Glass and the Gathering of the People: A Book for the Exhibition [Extract]
chapter 3|5 pages
Michael Angelo Garvey, The Silent Revolution, or the Future Effects of Steam and Electricity Upon the Conditions of Mankind [Extract]
chapter 4|2 pages
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, ‘Ode for the Opening of the International Exhibition’
chapter 5|2 pages
F. R. Conder, ‘The Best Friend of the Working Man’ [Extract]
chapter 6|3 pages
‘The World in a Hurry’
chapter 8|3 pages
A. R. Bennett, On the Telephoning of Great Cities [Extract]
chapter 9|3 pages
Alfred Russel Wallace, The Wonderful Century: Its Successes and Failures [Extract]
part 2|77 pages
Transport
chapter 10|6 pages
Railway Reform: Its Expediency and Practicability Considered [Extract]
chapter 11|2 pages
‘Railway Politeness’ And ‘The Third Class Traveller's Petition’
chapter 12|4 pages
D. T. Timins, ‘From Roofless Pen to Corridor Coach: The Evolution of the 3rd Class Carriage on the South Eastern Railway’ [Extract]
chapter 13|4 pages
J. Hain Friswell, ‘A Journey Underground’
chapter 14|4 pages
Simon Sterne, ‘The Greathead Underground Electric Railway’ [Extract]
chapter 15|4 pages
Fred T. Jane, ‘The Romance of Modern London, III: Round the Underground on an Engine’
chapter 19|6 pages
Cesare Lombroso, ‘The Bicycle and Crime’
chapter 20|3 pages
J. Munro, ‘Carriages Without Horses’
chapter 21|10 pages
[H. Cunningham], ‘Horseless Carriages’ [Extract]
part 3|50 pages
Illumination
chapter 25|5 pages
Charles w. Vincent, ‘The Dangers of Electric Lighting’
chapter 26|5 pages
Charles Knight, ‘Illustrations of Cheapness: The Lucifer Match’
chapter 27|1 pages
[Henry Morley], ‘Letter from a Highly Respectable Old Lady’
chapter 28|4 pages
T. E. Thorpe, T. Oliver, and G. Cunningham, Report on the Use of Phosphorus in Manufacture of Lucifer Matches [Extract]
part 4|81 pages
Communication
chapter 29|3 pages
Rowland Hill, Postal Reform: Its Importance and Practicability [Extract]
chapter 30|4 pages
Charles Dickens and W. H. Wills, ‘Valentine's Day at the Post Office’ [EXTRACT]
chapter 31|6 pages
‘A Few Weeks from Home: The Electric Telegraph’
chapter 32|4 pages
George Wilson, ‘The Electric Telegraph’ [Extract]
chapter 33|7 pages
Andrew Wynter, ‘The Electric Telegraph’ [Extract]
chapter 34|7 pages
Anthony Trollope, ‘The Young Women at the Telegraph Office’ [Extract]
chapter 38|3 pages
Ardern Holt, ‘The Art of Type-Writing’
chapter 39|8 pages
Edward Abbott Parry, ‘Mr. Twistleton's Type-Writer’
chapter 40|3 pages
‘A Shareholder,’ The Linotype Composing Machine: A Retrospect and a Prospect [Extract]
part 5|76 pages
Sound and vision
chapter 42|3 pages
John Henry Pepper, ‘The Stereoscope’ [Extract]
chapter 43|3 pages
William B. Carpenter, ‘On the Zoetrope and its Antecedents’ [Extract]
chapter 44|2 pages
The Young Ladies' Treasure Book: A Complete Practical Cyclopedia of Practical Instruction and Direction for all Indoor and Outdoor Occupations and Amusements Suitable to Young Ladies [Extract]
chapter 45|2 pages
Thomas W. Salter, Field's Chromatography; or, Treatise on Colours and Pigments as used by Artists [Extract]
chapter 46|1 pages
‘The Inventions Exhibition: The Miranda Pianista’
chapter 47|8 pages
W. H. Preece, ‘The Phonograph’
chapter 51|9 pages
M. Griffith, ‘An Electric Eye: The Marvellous Discovery of an Eastern Professor which Distances the RÖntgen Rays as they Distance Photography’
chapter 52|7 pages
James Knowles, ‘Wireless Telegraphy and “Brain-Waves”’
part 6|54 pages
Daily life – and death