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Keyword: nineteenth century

By Robert Naylor

Book review: Applied Science: Knowledge, Modernity, and Britain's Public Realm by Robert Bud

Cover of a booklet showing an illustration of Henrietta Vansittart holding a propeller model
By Emily Rees Koerner

Inventor, devoted daughter, or lover? Uncovering the life and work of Victorian naval engineer Henrietta Vansittart (1833–1883)

By Barbara Gribling

The Panstereomachia, Madame Tussaud’s and the Heraldic Exhibition: the art and science of displaying the medieval past in nineteenth-century London

By Henry A McGhie

Review: Science Museums in Transition: Cultures of Display in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America, edited by Carin Berkowitz and Bernard Lightman, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017

By Melissa Dickson

Something in the Air: Dr Carter Moffat’s Ammoniaphone and the Victorian Science of Singing

By Phillip Roberts

Philip Carpenter and the convergence of science and entertainment in the early-nineteenth century instrument trade

By Iris Veysey

A statistical campaign: Florence Nightingale and Harriet Martineau’s England and her Soldiers

By Michael Kay

Troublesome telephony: how users and non-users shaped the development of early British exchange telephony