WEIRD SCIENCE
Weird Science explores amazing ideas of the Victorian Era. It delves into inventions, sciences, engineering, architecture and countless discoveries. It was a turning point in the history of human creativity. It was a time of outrageous developments. Weird science led to daily inventions and discoveries. Some were major successes and some were disastrous flops!
Horatio Jackson Drove Across America
Horatio Jackson Drove Across America
Horatio Jackson couldn’t resist the challenge. Many believed the horseless carriage was a passing fad. An auto enthusiast, Jackson sought Read More>...
Ice Cream Cones Ignore History
Ice Cream Cones Ignore History
Ice Cream Cones appeared sometime after ice was wed to cream. Exactly when ice cream cones first appeared and who Read More>...
Tulip Mania Spawned Greater Fools
Tulip Mania Spawned Greater Fools
Many historians believe that the story of Tulip Mania is as inflated as the price of its bulbs. But it Read More>...
Trailblazing Women Wore Victorian Tennis Shoes
Trailblazing Women Wore Victorian Tennis Shoes
Victorian tennis shoes were practical, but homely. Women were winning the right to exercise, play outdoors and compete at sports. Read More>...
First Electric Christmas Lights Sparked Holiday Cheer
First Electric Christmas Lights Sparked Holiday Cheer
Christmas trees were still relatively new to most homes in Britain and America during the late 1800s. Since widespread electrification Read More>...
Fannie Merritt Farmer Pioneered Scientific Cooking
Fannie Merritt Farmer Pioneered Scientific Cooking
Fannie Merritt Farmer transformed kitchens and holiday tables with her best-selling cookbooks. Many are still in print nearly 125 years Read More>...
Annie Edson Taylor Rode Niagara Falls
Annie Edson Taylor Rode Niagara Falls
Annie Edson Taylor said she had no choice. She was down on her luck and running out of money as Read More>...
Victorian Cardomania Foreshadowed Social Media Photo Sharing
Victorian Cardomania Foreshadowed Social Media Photo Sharing
In its early days photography was accessible primarily to the wealthy. André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri began to change that with his patent Read More>...
Carl Størmer Captured Candid Expressions With His Victorian Era Spy Camera
Carl Størmer Captured Candid Expressions With His Victorian Era Spy Camera
Norwegian innovator Carl Størmer was possibly the first stalker to use a hidden camera in the name of love. He Read More>...
Supernatural Strength Of Victorian Georgia Wonders Confounded Audiences
Supernatural Strength Of Victorian Georgia Wonders Confounded Audiences
Waves of female circus and vaudeville performers emerged as equals in strength to their male counterparts in the late 1800s. Read More>...
Futuristic Victorian Postcards Predicted Millennial Technology
Futuristic Victorian Postcards Predicted Millennial Technology
Do you ever imagine what life will look like one hundred years from now? The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) provides Read More>...
Christmas Bird Count Transformed Holiday Side Hunts
Christmas Bird Count Transformed Holiday Side Hunts
Christmas Season “side hunts” were the rage through the late 1800s when most people still considered birds a limitless resource. Read More>...
Duryea Brothers Won First American Car Race On Thanksgiving Day
Duryea Brothers Won First American Car Race On Thanksgiving Day
It was postponed for months, allowing entrants more time to prepare their horseless carriages. When the day of the first Read More>...
Columbian Exposition Electricity Transformed America
Columbian Exposition Electricity Transformed America
Meant to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Columbus’s arrival to the New World, the 1893 Columbian Exposition was better known Read More>...
Dramatic Skies From Victorian Era Krakatoa Eruption Touched People Worldwide
Dramatic Skies From Victorian Era Krakatoa Eruption Touched People Worldwide
The Krakatoa Eruption touched people around the world. It remained relatively quiet for roughly 200 years until it started grumbling Read More>...
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- Horatio Jackson Drove Across America
- Ice Cream Cones Ignore History
- Tulip Mania Spawned Greater Fools
- Trailblazing Women Wore Victorian Tennis Shoes
- First Electric Christmas Lights Sparked Holiday Cheer
- Fannie Merritt Farmer Pioneered Scientific Cooking
- Annie Edson Taylor Rode Niagara Falls
- Victorian Cardomania Foreshadowed Social Media Photo Sharing
- Carl Størmer Captured Candid Expressions With His Victorian Era Spy Camera
- Supernatural Strength Of Victorian Georgia Wonders Confounded Audiences
- Futuristic Victorian Postcards Predicted Millennial Technology
- Christmas Bird Count Transformed Holiday Side Hunts
- Duryea Brothers Won First American Car Race On Thanksgiving Day
- Columbian Exposition Electricity Transformed America
- Dramatic Skies From Victorian Era Krakatoa Eruption Touched People Worldwide
- Female Aeronaut Mary Myers Mastered East Coast Wind Currents In Hot Air Balloons
- Two Petrol Powered French Vehicles Won The First Car Race For Comfort Plus Speed
- Giant Victoria Water Lily Sparked Fierce Competition To Give Queen Victoria First Blossoms
- First Female Field Engineer Emily Warren Roebling Completed Construction Of The Brooklyn Bridge
- Hot Air Balloonist Eduard Spelterini Paved The Way For Google Maps With Dramatic Aerial Photography
- Victorian Era Photochrom Postcards Became Instagram For Nineteenth Century Collectors
- Chipped China Inspired Josephine Cochrane To Invent Effective Victorian Era Dishwashers
- French Flower Market By Ethel Carrick Fox Was Once Highest-Priced Among Australian Women Painters
- Corrupt Politicians Killed Victorian Era Central Park Dinosaurs And Buried The Bodies
- Steam Powered Victorian Era Robots Failed Miserably But Inspired Science Fiction Stories
- Victorian Era Virtual Reality Megalethoscope Brought The World To Armchair Travelers
- The Great Moon Hoax Captivated Victorian Era Readers With Alternative Facts And Magical Thinking
- Victorian Era Solar Eclipses Inspired Mabel Loomis Todd To Write Poetic Science For Non-scientists
- Victorian Era Painter Peder Severin Kroyer Captured Magical Blue Light of Skagen
- Human Cannonball Zazel Thrilled Victorian Era Audiences With Her Bravery
- Victorian Era Mermaids Flourished With Barnum’s Fake News And Alternative Facts
- Victorian Era Theatrophone Live Streamed Opera Performances And News
- Philadelphia Centennial Exposition 1876 Introduced Everything From Bananas To Telephones
- Victorian Era Electric Cars And The Ladies Who Loved Them
- Frederick Richard Simms Designed First Armored Cars
- Henry Ford Quadricycle Reached Ten mph June 1896
- Winifred Edgerton Merrill Cheered As First American Woman Awarded Mathematics Ph.D.
- Harriet Quimby Set Multiple Records Including First Licensed Female Pilot In America
- Lemoine Family’s Victorian Flowers Bloom In Our Gardens Today
- Astonishing Victorian Selfies Promoted Nikola Tesla Inventions And Experiments
- Nikola Tesla Papers Envisioned Renewable Energy For A Better World
- Jules Verne North Pole Novel Predicted Today’s Arctic Land Grab
- Mary Anning Discoveries Including Ichthyosaur Rocked Paleontology
- Wild Victorian New Year’s Eve Party Hosted In Dinosaur’s Belly
- Victorian Era Crystal Palace Dinosaurs Roam Earth To This Day
- Profits From The Great Exhibition 1851 Fund Research Today
- The First Gigantic Ferris Wheel Had Steep Highs And Lows
- Top 4 Victorian Era Eyewear Trends Rocked Fashionistas
- Great Comets Sparked Skies Of Victorian Era
- Perseid Meteor Showers From Comet Swift-Tuttle
- MAREA Follows First Transatlantic Cable By 150 Years
- Four Weird Victorian Inventions That Made Shade
- Bartholdi’s Statue Of Liberty Slated For Suez Canal
- Behold The Ice Cream Cone: Invention Of Necessity
- Nancy Johnson Brought Ice Cream To The Masses
- Joseph Faber’s Marvelous Talking Machine, Euphonia
- Mutoscopes Become “What The Butler Saw” Machines
- Jan Zieba’s Panoramic Photography: Churches of Peace
- The Harem Effect On Female Scientists In The Victorian Era
- Williamina Fleming: Maid To Victorian Era Astronomer
- Please Don’t Lick The Wallpaper: Arsenic In Victorian Era Décor
- Victorian Era Fashion: Green Gowns To Die For!
- Nellie Bly Sent Victorian Era Tweets From Her Race
- Victorian Era Places: Then And Now
- Aida de Acosta: First Woman To Fly A Powered Aircraft
- Santos-Dumont Creates First “Flying Car”: Victorian Era
- Victorian Era Trick Photography: Headless Portraits
- Eiffel Tower’s Top Ten Victorian Secrets Revealed
- Victorian Airships And Dirigibles Meet Amazon Prime Air
- First Steam-Powered Airship Goes In Circles, Giffard 1852
- Giffard’s Balloon Over Paris Takes 50 Passengers & Photos, 1878
- Stonehenge Auctioned: Chubb’s Wife Returned His Gift
- Message In A Bottle Travels More Than A Century
- 1858: Elon Musk Of The Transatlantic Cable
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- The Quagga’s Last Day On Earth: August 12, 1883
- Daredevil Driver Fred Marriott Sets Land Speed Record
- Fastest Auto Ride: “American Memory”
- First Hacker Talks Trash: Victorian Era, 1903
- Nikola Tesla And Mark Zuckerberg Read Your Mind
- Nikola Tesla Predicted Cell Phones, 1901
- Bad Victorian Era Hair Days Blown Away Forever
- Dodging Brooklyn’s Streetcars: 1895
- Were Doughnuts Really Invented in 1847?
- Sally Ride’s Space Adventure
- Chumash Artifacts Found Above Malibu
- The Saga Of Hurricane Bill
- Big Dreams, Small Tool Triggered Gold Rush
- Edison’s Talking Dolls: A Lesson In Damage Control
- The 1865 “Red Flag Act” Speed Limit: 4 mph!
- 1886: Bertha Benz Cures Her Need For Speed
- Jules Verne And The Effect of Awe On Your Brain
- Jules Verne: Visionary And Futurist
- How Did Nikola Tesla’s Cat Change Your Life?
- Nikola Tesla Cured Mark Twain’s Constipation
