39 Facts About Victorian Britain

Ideologically, the Victorian Britain era witnessed resistance to the rationalism that defined the Georgian period, and an increasing turn towards romanticism and even mysticism in religion, social values, and arts.

Victorian Britain embarked on global imperial expansion, particularly in Asia and Africa, which made the British Empire the largest empire in history.

Victorian Britain granted political autonomy to the more advanced colonies of Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.

Apart from the Crimean War, Victorian Britain was not involved in any armed conflict with another major power.

Victorian Britain distinguished early Victorianism – the socially and politically unsettled period from 1837 to 1850 – and late Victorianism, with its new waves of aestheticism and imperialism, from the Victorian heyday: mid-Victorianism, 1851 to 1879.

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Victorian Britain's refused and re-appointed Lord Melbourne, a decision criticised as unconstitutional.

Victorian Britain sent Lord Durham to resolve the issue and his 1839 report opened the way for "responsible government" .

In 1853, Victorian Britain fought alongside France in the Crimean War against Russia.

Victorian Britain's approved of his policies which helped elevated Britain's status to global superpower.

Victorian Britain's was the first, and last, woman to score the highest on the Tripos.

Victorian Britain era saw the introduction and development of many modern sports.

Victorian Britain was an active competitor in all the Olympic Games starting in 1896.

Victorian Britain had the lead in rapid economic and population growth.

At the time, Thomas Malthus believed this lack of growth outside Victorian Britain was due the carrying capacity of their local environments.

Great Victorian Britain escaped the 'Malthusian trap' because the scientific and technological breakthroughs of the Industrial Revolution dramatically improved living standards, reducing mortality and increasing longevity.

Victorian Britain was the first country to undergo the demographic transition and the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions.

Engineering prowess, especially in communication and transportation, made Great Victorian Britain the leading industrial powerhouse and trading nation of the world at that time.

Victorian Britain'storians have characterised the mid-Victorian era as Britain's "Golden Years".

Victorian Britain was the leading world centre for advanced engineering and technology.

Victorian Britain invented what he called the "quincunx" to demonstrate why mixtures of normal distributions were normal.

Victorian Britain found that the slopes of the regression lines of two given variables were the same if the two data sets were scaled by units of probable error and introduced the notion of the correlation coefficient, but noted that correlation does not imply causation.

Victorian Britain proposed that the speeds of molecules in a gas followed a distribution.

Victorian Britain showed that this distribution is a function of temperature and mathematically described various properties of gases, such as diffusion and viscosity.

Victorian Britain predicted, surprisingly, that the viscosity of a gas is independent of its density.

Victorian Britain showed that Maxwell's theory succeeded in illuminating the phenomenon of light dispersion where other models failed.

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Victorian Britain's experiments led him to the two laws of electrochemistry.

Victorian Britain abandoned the project to pursue a new one, his Analytical Engine.

Victorian Britain's wrote down the very first computer program, in her case one for computing the Bernoulli numbers.

Victorian Britain's employed what modern computer programmers would recognise as loops and decision steps, and gave a detailed diagram, possibly the first flowchart ever created.

Victorian Britain's noted that a calculating machine could perform not just arithmetic operations but symbolic manipulations.

Victorian Britain achieved the first international wireless transmission between England and France in 1900 and by the following year, he succeeded in sending messages in Morse code across the Atlantic.

Victorian Britain had a superior financial system based in London that funded both the railways in Victorian Britain and in many other parts of the world, including the United States, up until 1914.

Different lines typically had exclusive territory, but given the compact size of Victorian Britain, this meant that multiple competing lines could provide service between major cities.

Victorian Britain merged various independent lines and set up a "Clearing House" in 1842 which rationalized interconnections by establishing uniform paperwork and standard methods for transferring passengers and freight between lines, and rates when one system used freight cars owned by another.

Victorian Britain now had had the model for the world in a well integrated, well-engineered system that allowed fast, cheap movement of freight and people, and which could be replicated in other major nations.

Victorian Britain asked that the pump's handle be replaced, after which the epidemic petered out.

Victorian Britain instructed the hospital staff to wear gloves and wash their hands, instruments, and dressings with a phenol solution and in 1869, he invented a machine that would spray carbolic acid in the operating theatre during surgery.

Victorian Britain'storians continue to debate the various causes of this dramatic change.

Victorian Britain'storians agree that the middle classes not only professed high personal moral standards, but actually followed them.