Victorian Entertainment: There Will Be Fun
Thursday, 23 March 2017
Friday, 10 March 2017
Trick Photography
Thursday, 9 March 2017
Magic Shows and Supernatural Séances
Magic Shows/ Supernatural Séances
Freak Shows
Freak Shows
Mechanical Dolls and Automatons
Mechanical Dolls/ Automatons
The building of automatons (moving mechanical machines) flourished during the Victorian age and had a universal appeal.

In London, Charles Babbage watched the Turk in action and also thought it a hoax, although it did make him think about how a real calculating machine could work; this eventually resulted in his creation of the ‘difference engine’ considered today to have been the world’s very first computer.
Wednesday, 8 March 2017
Victorian Zoos
Zoos
Sir Stamford Raffles and Sir Humphrey Davy founded the London zoological Society in 1826 so to promote the study of ecology. In 1828 the London zoo was founded for the study of animal species in Regents Park but was only open to members of the ZSL. In 1847 it opened to the general paying public due the high maintenance costs
It was also at the London Zoo that Charles Darwin saw his first orangutan (Jenny) and watched in amazement as she had a tantrum over a withheld apple.
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