Victorian Material Culture

Herausgeber: Menke, Richard

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection brings together a range of primary sources on Victorian material and culture. This third volume, 'Invention and Technology', will look at a variety of Victorian inventions, both foundational and short-lived.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 398
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 757g
• ISBN-13: 9781138225312
• ISBN-10: 1138225312
• Artikelnr.: 69945307

Autorenporträt

Richard Menke, is Associate Professor of English, University of Georgia, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 The March of Invention 1. Alexander Somerville
'One Who Has Whistled at the Plough'
The Autobiography of a Working Man (London: Gilpin
1848)
[extract] pp. 358-61. 2. John Stoughton
The Palace of Glass and the Gathering of the People: A Book for the Exhibition (London: Religious Tracts Society
1851)
[extract] pp. 18-25. 3. Michael Angelo Garvey
The Silent Revolution
or the Future Effects of Steam and Electricity upon the Conditions of Mankind (London: Cash
1852)
[extract] pp. 1-13. 4. Alfred
Lord Tennyson
'Ode for the Opening of the International Exhibition'
Fraser's Magazine 65 (1862)
p. 803. 5. F. R. Conder
'The Best Friend of the Working Man'
Fraser's Magazine new series 19 (1879)
pp. 231-2. 6. 'The World in a Hurry'
Sewing Machine Gazette and Journal of Domestic Appliances (1 March 1881)
p. 30. 7. 'The Latest Patent'
Answers (29 August 1891)
p. 249. 8. A. R. Bennett
On the Telephoning of Great Cities (London: Whittaker
1892)
[extract] pp. 4-7. 9. Alfred Russel Wallace
The Wonderful Century: Its Successes and Failures (London: Swann Sonnenschein
1898)
pp. 1-3
150-3. Part 2 Transport 2.1 Third-class rail travel 10. Railway Reform: Its Expediency and Practicability Considered (London: Pelham Richardson
1843)
[extract]
pp. 2-3
14-19. 11.'Railway Politeness' and 'The Third Class Traveller's Petition'
Punch (1845)
p. 101. 12. D. T. Timins
'From Roofless Pen to Corridor Coach: The Evolution of the 3rd Class Carriage on the South Eastern Railway'
Railway Magazine 4 (1899)
pp. 496-500. 2.2 Metropolitan Underground Railway 13. J. Hain Friswell
'A Journey Underground'
Once a Week (20 Sept. 1862)
pp. 361-3. 14. Simon Sterne
'The Greathead Underground Electric Railway'
Forum 11 (1891)
pp. 683-7. 15. Fred T. Jane
'The Romance of Modern London
III: Round the Underground on an Engine'
English Illustrated Magazine 10 (1892/1893)
pp. 787-92. 2.3 Tricycle and Bicycle 16. 'Women on Wheels'
Cassell's Family Magazine (1885)
pp. 589-91. 17. 'The Social Effect of Bicycling'
Spectator 76 (30 May 1896)
pp. 769-70. 18. E.B. Turner
'Health on the Bicycle' Contemporary Review 73 (1898)
pp. 640-8. 19. Cesare Lombroso
'The Bicycle and Crime'
Pall Mall Magazine 20 (1900)
pp. 310-6. 2.4 Horseless Carriage 20. J. Munro
'Carriages Without Horses' Cassell's Family Magazine (1896)
pp. 529-32. 21. H. Cunningham
'Horseless Carriages'
Edinburgh Review 183 (1896)
pp. 408-20. Part 3 Illumination 3.1 Gas light and electric light 22. 'Electric Lighting'
Cornhill Magazine 39 (1879)
pp. 157-72. 23. J. Munro
'From Candles to Gas'
Cassell's Family Magazine (1880)
pp. 225-8. 24. J. Munro
'From Gas to Electricity'
Cassell's Family Magazine (1880)
pp. 282-4. 25. Charles W. Vincent
'The Dangers of Electric Lighting'
Nineteenth Century 27 (January 1890)
pp. 145-9. 3.2 Lucifer Match 26. Charles Knight
'Illustrations of Cheapness: The Lucifer Match'
Household Words 1 (13 April 1850)
pp. 54-7. 27. [Henry Morley
] 'Letter from a Highly Respectable Old Lady'
Household Words 1 (18 May 1850)
pp. 186-7. 28. T. E. Thorpe
T. Oliver
G. Cunningham
Report on the Use of Phosphorus in Manufacture of Lucifer Matches (HMSO: London
1899)
[extract] pp. 11-2
17-8. Part 4 Communication 4.1 Postage stamp and letter 29. Rowland Hill
Postal Reform: Its Importance and Practicability (London: Knight
1837)
[extract]
pp. 27-30. 30. Charles Dickens and W. H. Wills
'Valentine's Day at the Post Office'
Household Words 1 (30 March 1850)
pp. 7-8. 4.2 Electric telegraph 31. 'A Few Weeks from Home: The Electric Telegraph'
Chambers Edinburgh Journal 9 (25 July 1840)
pp. 209-10. 32. George Wilson
'The Electric Telegraph'
Edinburgh Review 90 (1849)
[extract] pp. 459-63. 33. Andrew Wynter
'The Electric Telegraph'
Quarterly Review 95 (June 1854)
pp. 131-9. 34. Anthony Trollope
'The Young Women at the Telegraph Office'
Good Words (1877)
[extract]
pp. 377-81. 4.3 Telephone 35. 'The Telephone'
Westminster Review 53 (1878)
pp. 208-11. 36. 'The Telephone: A Domestic Tragedy'
Temple Bar 107 (1896)
pp. 106-10. 37. Arthur Mee
'The Pleasure Telephone'
Strand Magazine (1898)
pp. 208-14. 4.4 Typewriter 38. Ardern Holt
'The Art of Type-Writing'
Cassell's Family Magazine (1888)
pp. 659-60. 39. Edward Abbott Parry
'Mr. Twistleton's Type-Writer'
Cornhill Magazine 8 (1889)
pp. 62-71. 4.5 Linotype 40. 'A Shareholder'
The Linotype Composing Machine: A Retrospect and a Prospect (London: Witherby
1889)
pp. 28-31
47-9. Part 5 Sound and Vision 5.1 Stereoscope and stereoscopic photography 41. David Brewster
The Stereoscope (London: Murray
1856)
[extract]
pp. 196-200. 42. John Henry Pepper
'The Stereoscope'
in The Boy's Playbook of Science (London: Routledge
1866)
pp. 320-3. 5.2 Zoetrope
phenakistiscope
thaumatrope 43. William B. Carpenter
'On the Zoetrope and Its Antecedents'
The Student and Intellectual Observer of Science
Literature
and Art 2 (1869)
[extract]
pp. 25-7. 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 (London: Ward
Lock
[1884])
[extract]
pp. 806-8. 5.3 Aniline dye 45. Thomas W. Salter
Field's Chromotography; or
Treatise on Colours and Pigments As Used by Artists (London: Winsor and Newton
[1869])
[extract]
pp. 161-4. 5.4 Pianista 46. 'The Inventions Exhibition: The 'Miranda Pianista'
British Trade Journal (1 May 1885)
p. 297. 5.5 Phonograph 47. W. H. Preece
'The Phonograph'
Journal of the Society of Arts (10 May 1878)
pp. 534-8. 48. 'The New Phonograph'
Cassell's Family Magazine (1888)
pp. 315-7. 49. 'Mr. Edison's Phonograph'
Times (30 June 1888)
p. 5. 50. 'What Will Come of the Phonograph?' Spectator (30 June 1888)
p. 9. 5.6 Wireless telegraphy and future media 51. M. Griffith
'An Electric Eye: The Marvellous Discovery of an Eastern Professor Which Distances the Röntgen Rays As They Distance Photography'
Pearson's Magazine (December 1896)
pp. 749-56. 52. James Knowles
'Wireless Telegraphy and 'Brain-waves'
Nineteenth Century (1899)
pp. 857-64. 6 Daily Life - and Death 6.1 Sewing machine 53. 'Sewing Machines'
All the Year Round (27 March 1869)
pp. 394-7. 6.2 Refrigeration
frozen food 54. James Harrison
'Food Committee' [Frozen Meat]
Journal of the Society of Arts 22 (28 Nov. 1873)
pp. 24-8. 55. 'Refrigeration and Preservation'
Cassell's Family Magazine (1879)
p. 189. 6.3 Roller skate 56. 'Skating Rinks and Rinkomania'
Cassell's Family Magazine (1875)
pp. 304-6. 57. J. A. Harwood
Rinks and Rollers (London: Routledge
[1876])
[extract]
pp. 13-20. 6.4 Maxim gun 58. 'The Maxim Machine Gun'
Chambers's Journal 64 (1887)
pp. 190-1. 59. C. H. W. Donovan
With Wilson in Matabeleland
or Sport and War in Zambesia (London: Henry
1894)
[extract]
pp. 181-4. 60. From 'News of the Week'
The Spectator (2 Oct. 1897)
p. 1. Index