Ingenious inventions were pushed to outlandish extremes for the show's use of gadgets. For production designer Gemma Jackson and set decorator Tina Jones, collaborating on Joss Whedon’s supernatural ...

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 ...

Charles Dickens is one of the best novelists of the Victorian Era, but he's not the only good thing to come out of that time. Contestants ring in... Victorian Inventions Our story begins with a quiz ...

There are a lot of companies producing non-alcoholic spirits and beer these days, but you might be surprised to learn that way back in the Victorian era, the invention of ginger ale was born from an ...

Social historian Flanders (Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England) does a superb job of demonstrating the role that the press and fiction writers played in shaping ...

(THE CONVERSATION) It’s a common seasonal refrain: “Christmas just isn’t like it used to be.” This is not a new complaint. History shows that Christmas traditions are just as subject to change as any ...