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!
The Quagga’s Last Day On Earth: August 12, 1883
The Quagga’s Last Day On Earth: August 12, 1883
Spoiler Alert! Yes, the quagga’s last day on earth was August 12, 1883. Thanks to the magic of science, this Read More>...
Daredevil Driver Fred Marriott Sets Land Speed Record
Daredevil Driver Fred Marriott Sets Land Speed Record
At the time, a new fangled horseless carriages could barely outpace a person on foot. Still, a steam-powered vehicle dubbed Read More>...
Fastest Auto Ride: “American Memory”
Fastest Auto Ride: “American Memory”
The following interview at the Library of Congress is from the American Memory project, an archive of – yes, you guessed it Read More>...
First Hacker Talks Trash: Victorian Era, 1903
First Hacker Talks Trash: Victorian Era, 1903
June 4, 1903. Guglielmo Marconi, inventor and electrical engineer known for pioneering long distance radio transmissions, stood on a cliff Read More>...
Nikola Tesla And Mark Zuckerberg Read Your Mind
Nikola Tesla And Mark Zuckerberg Read Your Mind
It seems Nikola Tesla and Mark Zuckerberg had a few things in common. For one, they both wanted to read Read More>...
Nikola Tesla Predicted Cell Phones, 1901
Nikola Tesla Predicted Cell Phones, 1901
Nikola Tesla (1856 – 1943) spoke to a pigeon and he said she replied. Who are we to argue? He Read More>...
Bad Victorian Era Hair Days Blown Away Forever
Bad Victorian Era Hair Days Blown Away Forever
On June 26, we celebrate National Beautician’s Day, a special time to praise those brave souls who manage to Read More>...
Dodging Brooklyn’s Streetcars: 1895
Dodging Brooklyn’s Streetcars: 1895
Exactly how did the Dodgers get their name? Yes, the Brooklyn Dodgers (1884 to 1957) eventually became the Los Angeles Read More>...
Were Doughnuts Really Invented in 1847?
Were Doughnuts Really Invented in 1847?
Happy National Doughnut Day National Doughnut Day, the first Friday in June launched on June 7, 1938. That’s the day when Morgan Read More>...
Sally Ride’s Space Adventure
Sally Ride’s Space Adventure
Sally Ride’s space adventure would have made Jules Verne proud. Like Jules Verne, Sally Ride was a dreamer and a visionary Read More>...
Chumash Artifacts Found Above Malibu
Chumash Artifacts Found Above Malibu
Long before Rhoda May and Frederick Rindge purchased Malibu Ranch from the original owners of the Spanish Land Grant in Read More>...
The Saga Of Hurricane Bill
The Saga Of Hurricane Bill
In the Saga of Hurricane Bill, a hapless character of the Old West amassed piles of gold. Somehow, his dreams Read More>...
Big Dreams, Small Tool Triggered Gold Rush
Big Dreams, Small Tool Triggered Gold Rush
Go For the Gold! While Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland toiled over their latest articles in New York City, Read More>...
Edison’s Talking Dolls: A Lesson In Damage Control
Edison’s Talking Dolls: A Lesson In Damage Control
Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland had returned from their race around the world by just a few months when Edison’s Read More>...
The 1865 “Red Flag Act” Speed Limit: 4 mph!
The 1865 “Red Flag Act” Speed Limit: 4 mph!
Disruptive Technology By Karl Benz Karl Benz’s Patent MotorWagen, considered the first automobile, was one of the greatest disruptive technologies Read More>...
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- Annie Edson Taylor Rode Niagara Falls
- Victorian Cardomania Foreshadowed Social Media Photo Sharing
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- 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
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- 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
