The Victorian Era · Topic
Science & Invention
Steam trains, the telegraph, germ theory and the Great Exhibition — the engineering and medical breakthroughs that built the modern world.
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Victorian Science, Invention, and Technology
Victorian science, invention, and technology was the most innovative, the most consequential, and the most rapid in the history of the human species.
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