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VOLUME III Inventions and Technological Things |
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| Introduction to Volume III: A machine age - Victorian writing about inventions and technological things |
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PART 1 The march of invention |
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1 Alexander Somerville, The Autobiography of a Working Man [ extract] |
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21 | (3) |
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2 John Stoughton, The Palace of Glass and the Gathering of the People: A Book for the Exhibition [ extract] |
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24 | (3) |
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3 Michael Angelo Garvey, The Silent Revolution, or the Future Effects of Steam and Electricity upon the Conditions of Mankind [ extract] |
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27 | (5) |
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4 Alfred, Lord Tennyson, `Ode for the Opening of the International Exhibition' |
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32 | (2) |
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5 F. R. Conder, `The Best Friend of the Working Man' [ extract] |
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34 | (2) |
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36 | (3) |
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39 | (1) |
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8 A. R. Bennett, On the Telephoning of Great Cities [ extract] |
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40 | (3) |
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9 Alfred Russel Wallace, The Wonderful Century: Its Successes and Failures [ extract] |
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43 | (4) |
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47 | (78) |
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2.1 Third-class rail travel |
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49 | (4) |
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10 Railway Reform: Its Expediency and Practicability Considered [ extract] |
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53 | (6) |
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11 `Railway Politeness' and `The Third Class Traveller's Petition' |
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59 | (2) |
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12 D. T. Timins, `From Roofless Pen to Corridor Coach: The Evolution of the 3rd Class Carriage on the South Eastern Railway' [ extract] |
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61 | (8) |
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2.2 Metropolitan underground railway |
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65 | (4) |
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13 J. Hain Friswell, `A Journey Underground' |
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69 | (4) |
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14 Simon Sterne, `The Greathead Underground Electric Railway' [ extract] |
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73 | (4) |
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15 Fred T. Jane, `The Romance of Modern London, III: Round the Underground on an Engine' |
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77 | (8) |
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81 | (4) |
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85 | (4) |
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17 `The Social Effect of Bicycling' |
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89 | (3) |
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18 E. B. Turner, `Health on the Bicycle' |
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92 | (8) |
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19 Cesare Lombroso, `The Bicycle and Crime' |
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100 | (11) |
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107 | (4) |
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20 J. Munro, `Carriages Without Horses' |
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111 | (3) |
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21 [ H. Cunningham], `Horseless Carriages'[ extract] |
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114 | (11) |
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125 | (50) |
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3.1 Gas light and electric light |
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127 | (4) |
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131 | (14) |
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23 J. Munro, `From Candles to Gas' |
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145 | (5) |
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24 J. Munro, `From Gas to Electricity' |
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150 | (6) |
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25 Charles W. Vincent, `The Dangers of Electric Lighting' |
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156 | (9) |
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161 | (4) |
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26 Charles Knight, `Illustrations of Cheapness: The Lucifer Match' |
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165 | (5) |
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27 [ Henry Morley], `Letter from a Highly Respectable Old Lady' |
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170 | (1) |
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28 T. E. Thorpe, T. Oliver, and G. Cunningham, Report on the Use of Phosphorus in Manufacture of Lucifer Matches [ extract] |
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171 | (4) |
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175 | (82) |
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4.1 Postage stamp and letter |
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177 | (4) |
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29 Rowland Hill, Postal Reform: Its Importance and Practicability [ extract] |
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181 | (3) |
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30 Charles Dickens and W. H. Wills, `Valentine's Day at the Post Office' [ extract] |
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184 | (9) |
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189 | (4) |
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31 `A Few Weeks from Home: The Electric Telegraph' |
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193 | (6) |
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32 George Wilson, `The Electric Telegraph' [ extract] |
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199 | (4) |
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33 Andrew Wynter, `The Electric Telegraph' [ extract] |
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203 | (7) |
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34 Anthony Trollope, `The Young Women at the Telegraph Office'[ extract] |
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210 | (11) |
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217 | (4) |
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35 `The Telephone'[ extract] |
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221 | (3) |
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36 `The Telephone: A Domestic Tragedy' |
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224 | (4) |
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37 Arthur Mee, `The Pleasure Telephone' |
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228 | (9) |
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233 | (4) |
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38 Ardern Holt, `The Art of Type-Writing' |
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237 | (3) |
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39 Edward Abbott Parry, `Mr. Twistleton's Type-Writer' |
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240 | (13) |
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249 | (4) |
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40 `A Shareholder,' The Linotype Composing Machine: A Retrospect and a Prospect [ extract] |
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253 | (4) |
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257 | (76) |
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5.1 Stereoscope and stereoscopic photography |
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259 | (4) |
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41 David Brewster, The Stereoscope [ extract] |
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263 | (3) |
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42 John Henry Pepper, `The Stereoscope' [ extract] |
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266 | (7) |
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5.2 Zoetrope, phenakistiscope, thaumatrope |
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269 | (4) |
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43 William B. Carpenter, `On the Zoetrope and Its Antecedents' [ extract] |
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273 | (3) |
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44 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] |
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276 | (7) |
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279 | (4) |
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45 Thomas W. Salter, Fields Chromatography; or, Treatise on Colours and Pigments As Used by Artists [ extract] |
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283 | (6) |
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285 | (4) |
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46 `The Inventions Exhibition: The Miranda Pianista' |
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289 | (6) |
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291 | (4) |
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47 W. H. Preece, `The Phonograph' |
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295 | (8) |
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303 | (3) |
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49 `Mr. Edison's Phonograph' |
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306 | (4) |
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50 `What Will Come of the Phonograph?' |
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310 | (7) |
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5.6 Wireless telegraphy and future media |
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313 | (4) |
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51 M. Griffith, `An Electric Eye: The Marvellous Discovery of an Eastern Professor Which Distances the Rontgen Rays As They Distance Photography' |
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317 | (9) |
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52 James Knowles, `Wireless Telegraphy and "Brain-waves'" |
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326 | (7) |
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PART 6 Daily life - and death |
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333 | (54) |
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335 | (4) |
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339 | (10) |
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6.2 Refrigeration and frozen food |
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345 | (4) |
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54 James Harrison, `Food Committee' [ extract] |
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349 | (13) |
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55 `Refrigeration and Preservation' |
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362 | (7) |
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365 | (4) |
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56 `Skating Rinks and Rinkomania' |
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369 | (4) |
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57 J. A. Harwood, Rinks and Rollers [ extract] |
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373 | (8) |
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377 | (4) |
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58 `The Maxim Machine Gun' |
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381 | (2) |
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59 C. H. W. Donovan, With Wilson in Matabeleland, or Sport and War in Zambesia [ extract] |
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383 | (2) |
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60 `News of the Week' [ extract] |
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385 | (2) |
| Index |
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