Victorian Technology: Invention, Innovation, and the Rise of the Machine (Victorian Life and Times)

An enlightening history of 19th-century technology, focusing on the connections between invention and cultural values.

• A chronology marking dates of important inventions and innovations, the passage of laws relating to finance and working conditions, workers' organizations, and transformations in warfare.

• Detailed drawings and photographs of inventions and structures, such as the locomotive, steam engine, iron bridges and railways stations, the Crystal Palace, and the Victorian computer