Season 3 Episode 1: Victorian Machines
Hosted By Vanessa Warne and Anne Hung
With Guests Meegan Kennedy, Richard Menke, and Jason Camlot
We begin Season 3 of Victorian Samplings with three conversations surrounding the material and cultural history of machines, from microscopes to machine guns.
Transcript
Read a complete transcript of the episode here!
Transcript created by Natalie LoVetri.
References & Resources
For more on Meegan Kennedy’s research, click here.
Take a closer look at the field of microscopy today on the Quekett Microscopical Club website.
Visit the Offaly History Blog for more on Mary Ward’s contributions* to microscopy.
Learn more about Richard Menke’s research.
Explore the history of the Gatling gun here.
Read excerpts from Richard’s books, Telegraphic Realism and Literature, Print Culture, and Media Technologies, 1880–1900: Many Inventions.
Check out Jason Camlot’s research and publications.
Listen to the 1890 wax cylinder recording of Alfred Tennyson’s “Charge of the Light Brigade”.
For details on the Spoken Web project, visit their website.
*The Victorian Samplings team thank Meegan for the following correction: Mary Ward published Sketches with a Microscope in a limited edition of 250 copies in 1857. In 1859, Ward republished and expanded this material under the title, A World of Wonders Revealed by the Microscope: A Book for Young Students. To view a copy of that second publication, visit here.
Victorian Samplings was recorded and produced on the territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən and SENĆOŦEN speaking communities of the Songhees, Esquimalt, and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples, and on Treaty One Territory, traditional Land of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples and homeland of the Métis Nation.
Our podcast theme is “Happy Jazzy Ragtime Piano” by Praded, licensed by AudioJungle; our podcast stinger was made and donated by Brandon Christopher.
Illustration of a Victorian microscope.