28 Facts About Victorian period

The era followed the Georgian Victorian period and preceded the Edwardian Victorian period, and its later half overlaps with the first part of the Belle Epoque era of Continental Europe.

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

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

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

Michael Balfe was the most popular British grand opera composer of the Victorian period, while the most popular musical theatre was a series of fourteen comic operas by Gilbert and Sullivan, although there was musical burlesque and the beginning of Edwardian musical comedy in the 1890s.

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

Gothic Revival architecture became increasingly significant during the Victorian period, leading to the Battle of the Styles between Gothic and Classical ideals.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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