Users without a subscription are not able to see the full content on With its advanced industrial technologies Britain was able to attack a huge and rapidly expanding international market. Nothing on this scale had ever been considered before, and when she was finally broken up in 1888, the Great Eastern was still the largest ship in the world. Representation of the Rocket which heralded the dawn of the railway age. 1803-22 1772 Crompton's "mule" combines Hargreaves' and Arkwright's machines, fully automating the weaving process. The BHL project harnesses the power of citizen science to engage the whole world through the Internet in order to classify and describe these drawings, which in some cases are the only known record of extinct species.      Luddite riots: laborers attack factories and break up the machines they fear will replace them. Marconi transmits first trans-Atlantic radio message (from Cape Cod). These overviews of Victorian technology fall into two categories: historical approaches and literary approaches, which treat technology more explicitly in relation to language, literary works, and cultural representation. The 1830s were also marked by the founding of three major shipping lines, the British and American Steam Navigation Company, the Great Western Steamship Company and the Peninsular Steam Navigation Company. It provided artists and writers with absorbing models for narrative form, visual perception, human relations, spirituality, and scientific objectivity.
The Victorian Age. From an early date the British government realised that the successful operation and maintenance of an expanding trade empire depended upon fast, regular and reliable steamship services, supported by coaling and supply stations scattered all over the world. Brunel's response to the challenge posed by his rivals was to design a bigger and better ship.     James Brindley's Bridgewater Canal opens. British engineers, British construction teams and British capital built railways throughout the Empire, in the Americas and in many parts of Europe. Their stations, wondrous constructions in iron and glass and great cathedrals to modernity, brought a new building type into British culture. Until Einstein, Newton's physics forms the foundation of modern science, provides the model for other sciences, and serves as the basic description of the natural laws governing the universe. Rev.
Able to keep deep coal mines clear of water. We might prevent similar situations in the future,” says Rose-Sandler. In recent decades, however, many critics have proposed multiple histories of Victorian technology that challenge triumphalist accounts of inevitable progress and modernization. During the Victorian era, science grew into the discipline it is today. 1884    Carl Kohler uses cocaine as a local anesthetic. 1793 If we could travel through time to Victorian England, we would be amazed to find striking illustrations of nature in the sensationalist tabloids of the epoch. 1741-42 James, Principles of Psychology. The BHL project aims to prevent the loss of data on the biodiversity of the 19th century, and also to better understand how the extinction of some species occurred. The machine did not get much attention in America, so he sold the patent rights in England for £250. The great engineers, Stephenson, Brunel, Locke, Vignoles and many others built their lines across hills and valleys, across mountains and marshland and over great rivers with determination and style, and often regardless of cost. With those systems came the habit of commuting, one of the most durable and least appealing of nineteenth century legacies. The Victorian era was a remarkably fertile period for the adoption, expansion, and transformation of technology. A telegraph cable was laid across the Channel in 1851, followed by others across the Irish and North Seas. 1795 Other, mostly local, lines followed, the most important of which was the Liverpool and Manchester of 1830, famous for Robert Stephenson's Rocket locomotive. Christopher Sholes invents the Remington typewriter. 1861    Universal milling machine invented; 1861    James Clerk Maxwell creates first color photograph. In 1900, for example, 739,000 tons of shipping was built and registered in Britain.     Maxwell, Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism The complex structures of international trade developed by the Victorians and the maintenance of the process of wealth generation derived from them were dependent upon efficient means of communication. 1919 Sewing machines were used during the industrial revolution to increase production speed. Imperial railway building projects were often inspired by strategic as well as industrial and commercial motives, but such projects, notably in India and Africa, opened up huge and long lasting markets to British manufacturers.British-made locomotives, rolling stock and railway equipment were exported around the world throughout the Victorian period. On their pages, rigorous drawings coexisted with impossible creatures, like one unusual half-dog/half-human specimen. this page. Colonial, military and commercial implications were quickly appreciated. In contrast to previous publications, their authors were not only scientists, but also included nature lovers. 1844      This entry concentrates on technology in both Victorian literature and history, as a form of scientific practice supported through mechanical and artifactual systems, processes, and relations. 1781

1563      Even so, today they have heirs, such as the famous Popular Science founded in 1872, specialising in science and technology news aimed at non-specialised audiences. 1837 Through the website www.sciencegossip.org, anyone interested can help detail the pages of science gossip, so that exploring its content is easy. But while the technology may be new, this concern certainly isn’t. Read more. Oxford Bibliographies Online is available by subscription and perpetual access to institutions. An accidental breakthrough by Alexander Graham Bell and his lab assistant, Thomas Watson, led to the invention of the telephone, which was patented in 1876.

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