Victorian Technology - Invention, Innovation and the Rise of the Machine

An enlightening history of 19th-century technology, focusing on the connections between invention and cultural values.
In 1822, Charles Babbage unveiled his Difference Engine—a mechanical device made of thousands of hand-tooled parts that could calculate large numbers with unprecedented precision. In other words, it was the prototype of the computer—one of many Victorian-era innovations that foreshadowed the technologies that define our world.