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History of Victorian England Thomas Edison invented the first ever light bulb in 1880. This is arguably the most important invention in the history of mankind. Britain underwent an Industrial Revolution that helped Britain's economy greatly during the Victorian Era.
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Marsupial Fossil evidence indicates clearly that marsupials originated in the New World. The oldest known marsupial fossils (which have been found in both China and North America) date from approximately 125 million years ago, during the Cretaceous Period (145 to 66 million years ago).
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Brakes A major breakthrough occurred in 1869, when George Westinghouse invented the triple valve air-brake. This brake system was a drastic improvement over the air brakes previously employed, because if it failed, the brakes would automatically engage.Westinghouse’s design prevented accidents stemming from run-away vehicles. major breakthrough occurred in 1869, when George Westinghouse invented the triple valve air-brake. This brake system was a drastic improvement over the air brakes previously employed, because if it failed, the brakes would automatically engage. Westinghouse’s design prevented accidents stemming from run-away vehicles.
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The Victorian Age 1 The mid-Victorian period would ultimately see often contrary forces―like the promise of progress yet the emptiness of long-held beliefs―that would come to a head during the final decades of the Victorian era and that would eventually be its undoing. In fact, despite its having been an era of great social change, the Victorian period (particularly its early and middle periods) saw little progress for women's rights. 2  Women had limited access to education, could not vote or hold public office, and could not (until 1870) own property.
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- Trade restrictions, minimum wage laws, and product regulation were all viewed as detrimental to a nation's economic health. This laissez-faire policy of government non-intervention remained popular throughout the Victorian Era and still plays an important part in present-day economic policy. Capitalists, in particular, supported Smith's policies and often twisted his words to justify mistreatment of workers.
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- However, the period known as the Victorian era in England, from 1837 to 1901, witnessed such polarized gender roles that it can also be analyzed according to the different functions assigned to men and women, more commonly known as the ideology of separate spheres.
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Etiquette By the Victorian era, etiquette had developed into an exceptionally complicated system of rules, governing everything from the proper method for writing letters and using cutlery to the minutely regulated interactions between different classes and gender.
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Lighting in the Victorian Home All the principal forms of lighting were thus in use at the same time, and it was not until after the First World War that electric lighting finally emerged as the predominant source of light in the home.
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What is the Victorian Era? Queen Victoria ruled England from 1837-1901. Before this time, men were the focus of fashion, but with a queen in power, women surged to the forefront. The role of a wife became to show of her husbands status and wealth to the public, with the husband himself receding into the background. Many different clothing styles came and went during her reign.
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Victorian Britain During Queen Victoria’s reign Britain was the most powerful trading nation in the world. In this article, Liza Picard explains how Victorian advances in transport and communications sparked a social, cultural and economic revolution whose effects are still evident today.
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Darwinism : The Most Important Contribution of the Victorian Era Darwinism : The Most Important Contribution of the Victorian Era. By Zachary L., Holmdel, NJ. More by this author. Charles Darwin’s revolutionary idea of evolution sparked dramatic debate in the scientific and, most especially, religious communities, as well as inspiring a new wave of thought in the minds of the world.
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- Perhaps the first cultural manifestation of Victorianism was to be found in the early romantic poets. Writers such as Wordsworth, Blake, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley and Bryon were mainly active during the Georgian Era, but were often dissident elements, refusing to conform to the Augustan society around them.
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"British History 2: From the French Revolution to World War II Topic: ""Majesties and Royal Highnesses""" The Victorian Era. The Victorian Era is agreed to have stretched over the reign of Queen Victoria (1837 - 1901). It was a very exciting period with many artistic styles, literary schools as well as political and social movements.
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List of English inventions and discoveries 1 1589: The stocking frame, a mechanical knitting machine used in the textiles industry, invented by William Lee (1563–1614).  1733: The flying shuttle, a key development in the industrialization of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution, invented by John Kay of Walmersley (1704-c. 1779).
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The Victorian Period The Victorian Period. The Victorian period formally begins in 1837 (the year Victoria became Queen) and ends in 1901 (the year of her death). As a matter of expediency, these dates are sometimes modified slightly. 1830 is usually considered the end of the Romantic period in Britain, and thus makes a convenient starting date for Victorianism.
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puddling Henry Cort. Cort, Henry, 1740–1800, English inventor. He revolutionized the British iron industry with his use of grooved rollers to finish iron, replacing the process of hammering, and through his invention of the puddling process.
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History of Victorian England Introduction. The Victorian Era is the period of English history between 1837 and 1901. This time period is marked by the apex of the British Industrial Revolution and a time prosperity in the empire.
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Nineteenth-century Englishâan overview The invention of the electric telegraph (and the telegram – an American coinage which dates from the early 1850s) has been described as the nineteenth-century equivalent of the internet; for the first time, language could be transmitted—at unprecedented speed—without the need for face-to-face interaction.
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- Greek - scenic devices used - masks and costumes - the machina- for the deus ex machina - but little is known of designers. Elizabethan - Inigo Jones (274) brought Italianate staging ideas to England - by the 17th century (1600's), design was a high art and designers considered as artists.
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Modern history The Victorian era of British history (and that of the British Empire) was the period of Queen Victoria 's reign from 20 June 1837 until her death, on 22 January 1901.he era followed the Georgian period and preceded the Edwardian period. The later half of the Victorian age roughly coincided with the first portion of the Belle Époque époque era of Continental europe and The Gilded age of The United. states
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Overview: Victorian Britain, 1837 - 1901 Naval supremacy. 'When Britain really ruled the waves, in good Queen Bess's time' was the assessment of the late Victorian age's leading satirist, WS Gilbert. (He put these words into the mouth of a spoof peer of the realm in the comic opera 'Iolanthe', which he wrote with Arthur Sullivan in 1882.).ritain's naval might was not openly challenged on the high seas between Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson's famous victory at Trafalgar in 1805 and the World War One Battle of Jutland with the German navy in 1916. During the Victorian age, Britain was the world's most powerful nation.
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Lightheadedness Causes[edit] Lightheadedness can be simply (and most commonly) an indication of a temporary shortage of blood or oxygen to the brain due to a drop in blood pressure, rapid dehydration from vomiting, diarrhea, or fever, or from playing a wind instrument.
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What is the largest U.S. bill in circulation? On July 14, 1969, the Department of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve System announced that currency notes in denominations of $500, $1,000, $5,000, and $10,000 would be discontinued immediately due to lack of use. Although they were issued until 1969, they were last printed in 1945. These notes are legal tender and may be found in circulation today; however, most notes still in circulation are probably in the hands of private numismatic dealers and collectors.
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The Victorian Period Queen Victoria. The Victorian period formally begins in 1837 (the year Victoria became Queen) and ends in 1901 (the year of her death). As a matter of expediency, these dates are sometimes modified slightly. 1830 is usually considered the end of the Romantic period in Britain, and thus makes a convenient starting date for Victorianism.
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Victorian Britain The Victorian period in Britain was one of huge industrial and technological change, shocking divisions between rich and poor, sensational crimes, spectacular entertainments for the masses, and grand attempts to combat squalor and disease.
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- Edward B. Tylor (1832-1817) established the theoretical principles of Victorian anthropology, in Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom (1871), by adapting evolutionary theory to the study of human society.