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
A machine age – Victorian writing about inventions and technological things
part 1|31 pages
The march of invention
chapter 1|3 pages
Alexander Somerville, The Autobiography of a Working Man [Extract]
(London: Gilpin, 1848), pp. 358–361
chapter 2|3 pages
John Stoughton, The Palace of Glass and the Gathering of the People: A Book for the Exhibition [Extract]
(London: Religious Tracts Society, 1851), pp. 18–25
chapter 3|5 pages
Michael Angelo Garvey, The Silent Revolution, or the Future Effects of Steam and Electricity Upon the Conditions of Mankind [Extract]
(London: Cash, 1852), pp. 1–13
chapter 4|2 pages
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, ‘Ode for the Opening of the International Exhibition’
Fraser's Magazine, 65 (1862), p. 803
chapter 5|2 pages
F. R. Conder, ‘The Best Friend of the Working Man’ [Extract]
Fraser's Magazine, new series 19 (1879), pp. 231–232
chapter 6|3 pages
‘The World in a Hurry’
Sewing Machine Gazette and Journal of Domestic Appliances (1 March 1881), p. 30
chapter 8|3 pages
A. R. Bennett, On the Telephoning of Great Cities [Extract]
(London: Whittaker, 1892), pp. 4–7
chapter 9|3 pages
Alfred Russel Wallace, The Wonderful Century: Its Successes and Failures [Extract]
(London: Swann Sonnenschein, 1898), pp. 1–3, 150–153
part 2|77 pages
Transport
chapter 10|6 pages
Railway Reform: Its Expediency and Practicability Considered [Extract]
(London: Pelham Richardson, 1843), pp. 2–3, 14–19
chapter 11|2 pages
‘Railway Politeness’ And ‘The Third Class Traveller's Petition’
Punch (1845), p. 101
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]
Railway Magazine, 4 (1899), pp. 496–500
chapter 13|4 pages
J. Hain Friswell, ‘A Journey Underground’
Once a Week (20 Sept. 1862), pp. 361–363
chapter 14|4 pages
Simon Sterne, ‘The Greathead Underground Electric Railway’ [Extract]
Forum, 11 (1891), pp. 683–687
chapter 15|4 pages
Fred T. Jane, ‘The Romance of Modern London, III: Round the Underground on an Engine’
English Illustrated Magazine, 10 (1892/1893), pp. 787–792
chapter 19|6 pages
Cesare Lombroso, ‘The Bicycle and Crime’
Pall Mall Magazine, 20 (1900), pp. 310–316
chapter 20|3 pages
J. Munro, ‘Carriages Without Horses’
Cassell's Family Magazine (1896), pp. 529–532
chapter 21|10 pages
[H. Cunningham], ‘Horseless Carriages’ [Extract]
Edinburgh Review, 183 (1896), pp. 408–420
part 3|50 pages
Illumination
chapter 25|5 pages
Charles w. Vincent, ‘The Dangers of Electric Lighting’
Nineteenth Century, 27 (January 1890), pp. 145–149
chapter 26|5 pages
Charles Knight, ‘Illustrations of Cheapness: The Lucifer Match’
Household Words, 1 (13 April 1850), pp. 54–57
chapter 27|1 pages
[Henry Morley], ‘Letter from a Highly Respectable Old Lady’
Household Words, 1 (18 May 1850), pp. 186–187
chapter 28|4 pages
T. E. Thorpe, T. Oliver, and G. Cunningham, Report on the Use of Phosphorus in Manufacture of Lucifer Matches [Extract]
(HMSO: London, 1899), pp. 11–12, 17–18
part 4|81 pages
Communication
chapter 29|3 pages
Rowland Hill, Postal Reform: Its Importance and Practicability [Extract]
(London: Knight, 1837), pp. 27–30
chapter 30|4 pages
Charles Dickens and W. H. Wills, ‘Valentine's Day at the Post Office’ [EXTRACT]
Household Words, 1 (30 March 1850), pp. 7–8
chapter 31|6 pages
‘A Few Weeks from Home: The Electric Telegraph’
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, 9 (25 July 1840), pp. 209–210
chapter 32|4 pages
George Wilson, ‘The Electric Telegraph’ [Extract]
Edinburgh Review, 90 (1849), pp. 459–463
chapter 33|7 pages
Andrew Wynter, ‘The Electric Telegraph’ [Extract]
Quarterly Review, 95 (June 1854), pp. 131–139
chapter 34|7 pages
Anthony Trollope, ‘The Young Women at the Telegraph Office’ [Extract]
Good Words (1877), pp. 377–381
chapter 38|3 pages
Ardern Holt, ‘The Art of Type-Writing’
Cassell's Family Magazine (1888), pp. 659–660
chapter 39|8 pages
Edward Abbott Parry, ‘Mr. Twistleton's Type-Writer’
Cornhill Magazine, 8 (1889), pp. 62–71
chapter 40|3 pages
‘A Shareholder,’ The Linotype Composing Machine: A Retrospect and a Prospect [Extract]
(London: Witherby, 1889), pp. 28–31, 47–49
part 5|76 pages
Sound and vision
chapter 42|3 pages
John Henry Pepper, ‘The Stereoscope’ [Extract]
The Boy's Playbook of Science (London: Routledge, 1866), pp. 320–323
chapter 43|3 pages
William B. Carpenter, ‘On the Zoetrope and its Antecedents’ [Extract]
The Student and Intellectual Observer of Science, Literature, and Art, 2 (1869), pp. 25–27
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]
(London: Ward, Lock, 1884), pp. 806–808
chapter 45|2 pages
Thomas W. Salter, Field's Chromatography; or, Treatise on Colours and Pigments as used by Artists [Extract]
(London: Winsor and Newton, [1869]), pp. 161–164
chapter 46|1 pages
‘The Inventions Exhibition: The Miranda Pianista’
British Trade Journal (1 May 1885), p. 297
chapter 47|8 pages
W. H. Preece, ‘The Phonograph’
Journal of the Society of Arts (10 May 1878), pp. 534–538
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’
Pearson's Magazine (December 1896), pp. 749–756
chapter 52|7 pages
James Knowles, ‘Wireless Telegraphy and “Brain-Waves”’
Nineteenth Century (1899), pp. 857–864
part 6|54 pages
Daily life – and death
chapter 54|13 pages
James Harrison, ‘Food Committee’ [Extract]
Journal of the Society of Arts, 22 (28 Nov. 1873), pp. 24–28
chapter 59|2 pages
C. H. W. Donovan, with Wilson in Matabeleland, or Sport and War in Zambesia [Extract]
(London: Henry, 1894), pp. 181–184
