27 Facts About Victorian England

Ideologically, the Victorian England 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 England 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.

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

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

Religion was a battleground during this era, with the Nonconformists fighting bitterly against the established status of the Church of Victorian England, especially regarding education and access to universities and public office.

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Nonconformist conscience describes the moral sensibility of the Nonconformist churches—those which dissent from the established Church of Victorian England—that influenced British politics in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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

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

Victorian England era was a time of unprecedented population growth in Britain.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Victorian England 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.

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

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