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The Victorian Era had weird things in it besides Lovelace and Babbage
Updated on Dec 22, 10
Created on Sep 18, 09
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Sydney Padua's List: Victorian Oddities
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Aug 31, 09
More than you ever wanted to know about oysters in Victorian popular culture. Includes the history of the celebrated Dando the Oyster Eater.
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Aug 31, 09
"Autobiography of an Oyster" shoutout.. though it's a joke, Dando was a famous oyster-eater and didn't write a book. My quest for the "Autobiography of an Oyster" source for Babbage's quote on his memoirs continues...
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Oct 04, 09
AWESOME and weird..
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Oct 04, 09
great costumes and feel
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Apr 04, 09
Online collection of nearly 1,800 broadsides. These single sheets carried public notices, news, speeches and songs that could be read or sung aloud. Crime, politics, romance, emigration, humour, tragedy, royalty and superstitions..\n
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Nov 14, 09
Bunch of collections of interesting online documents
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Nov 15, 09
Unbelievably useful site for those wanting to define the undefinable- like, say, how much money was Ada's allowance of £300 a year really 'worth' in 1840? Answer: it depends on how you measure it.
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Feb 15, 10
The invaluable compendium.
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Dec 22, 10
Getting a little over-excited about what seems to be a Thaumatrope here.. anyways I like the 'steam-poetry' that claims a relationship with the calculating machine!
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