Ingenious inventions were pushed to outlandish extremes for the show's use of gadgets. For production designer Gemma Jackson and set decorator Tina Jones, collaborating on Joss Whedon’s supernatural ...

Are tech bros the new Victorians? I’m sure they wouldn’t think so. In fact, I’m sure they’d be deeply insulted by the notion. The Victorians of our imagination are staid fuddy-duddies—and the captains ...

Charles Dickens is one of the best novelists of the Victorian Era, but he's not the only good thing to come out of that time. Contestants ring in... Victorian Inventions Our story begins with a quiz ...

From the Publisher: Victorian Technology: Invention, Innovation, and the Rise of the Machine captures the extraordinary surge of energy and invention that catapulted 19th-century England into the ...

For production designer Gemma Jackson and set decorator Tina Jones, collaborating on Joss Whedon’s supernatural Victorian thriller, “The Nevers,” was like pulling the pin out of a grenade and watching ...

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