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!
Please Don’t Lick The Wallpaper: Arsenic In Victorian Era Décor
Please Don’t Lick The Wallpaper: Arsenic In Victorian Era Décor
Drop-dead gorgeous green ball gowns were not the only green products getting sensational headlines in the Victorian Era. That Read More>...
Victorian Era Fashion: Green Gowns To Die For!
Victorian Era Fashion: Green Gowns To Die For!
Victorian Era Fashion loved the color green. It’s the color of springtime and good health–even Christmas. As The Industrial Revolution Read More>...
Nellie Bly Sent Victorian Era Tweets From Her Race
Nellie Bly Sent Victorian Era Tweets From Her Race
Granted, Nellie Bly’s telegrams were not moving at tweet speed. Still, transmission was vastly improved from the time of the Read More>...
Victorian Era Places: Then And Now
Victorian Era Places: Then And Now
In case you missed “Then and Now” photographic projects, they offer amazing portals to the past. You can see Victorian Read More>...
Aida de Acosta: First Woman To Fly A Powered Aircraft
Aida de Acosta: First Woman To Fly A Powered Aircraft
Aida de Acosta kept her secret for 29 years. She was the first woman to fly a powered air Read More>...
Santos-Dumont Creates First “Flying Car”: Victorian Era
Santos-Dumont Creates First “Flying Car”: Victorian Era
Alberto Santos-Dumont was a pioneer aviator, brilliant engineer, international celebrity and the toast of the town in Belle Epoque Paris Read More>...
Victorian Era Trick Photography: Headless Portraits
Victorian Era Trick Photography: Headless Portraits
If you think the people of the Victorian Era didn’t know how to have a good time, take a look at Read More>...
Eiffel Tower’s Top Ten Victorian Secrets Revealed
Eiffel Tower’s Top Ten Victorian Secrets Revealed
Many ladies of the Era kept Victorian Secrets “close to their corsets.” Completed in 1889, The Eiffel Tower, a.k.a. the Iron Read More>...
Victorian Airships And Dirigibles Meet Amazon Prime Air
Victorian Airships And Dirigibles Meet Amazon Prime Air
We had to take a second look at this cartoon, titled “Not Yet, But Soon.” Is it a Victorian Era laugh Read More>...
First Steam-Powered Airship Goes In Circles, Giffard 1852
First Steam-Powered Airship Goes In Circles, Giffard 1852
From the beginning of time, humans looked to the sky, dreaming about breaking the bonds of gravity and taking Read More>...
Giffard’s Balloon Over Paris Takes 50 Passengers & Photos, 1878
Giffard’s Balloon Over Paris Takes 50 Passengers & Photos, 1878
In 1878-79, Henri Giffard launched a massive hot air balloon from the Tuileries Garden in Paris. He wanted to give Read More>...
Stonehenge Auctioned: Chubb’s Wife Returned His Gift
Stonehenge Auctioned: Chubb’s Wife Returned His Gift
How in the world was Stonehenge auctioned? It was September 21, 1915. Sir Cecil Chubb, a successful barrister and businessman living Read More>...
Message In A Bottle Travels More Than A Century
Message In A Bottle Travels More Than A Century
The message was a love note of sorts and it travelled more than a century. It was from George Read More>...
1858: Elon Musk Of The Transatlantic Cable
1858: Elon Musk Of The Transatlantic Cable
The next time you’re frustrated by a slow wi-fi connection or a voicemail that doesn’t show up on your phone Read More>...
Amelia Earhart: Our Favorite On National Aviation Day
Amelia Earhart: Our Favorite On National Aviation Day
“The stars seemed near enough to touch and never before have I seen so many.” Amelia Earhart National Aviation Day Read More>...
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- 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
- Amelia Earhart: Our Favorite On National Aviation Day
- 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
