Short items gathered from the Victorian press tell of the building of the Thames Tunnel, a vast spot on the sun, the death of Humphry Davy, Babbage’s calculating engine, the childhood of Pascal, Arkwright’s spinning frame, the discoverer of gutta-percha, Caroline Herschel’s work beside her brother, coal gas in balloons and a shoemaker who became an astronomer.
A browsable cabinet of nineteenth-century science and engineering anecdote, ideal for dipping into. Download the free EPUB.