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- During the Victorian period, many inventions were created. These inventions solved problems and made life better for people.
- Many of them are still used today. Some have evolved and turned into beneficial everyday machines all of us use.
The Railway Network
London Euston was the first train station in London. It connected London to Birmingham. The trains also went everywhere in England and Wales. Keep reading to learn more Victorian inventions facts.
The railway was a popular way to transport goods and people in Victorian times. It also helped the Industrial Revolution.
The Daguerreotype
Louis Daguerre invented daguerreotypes. He made them with a sheet of silver-plated copper, which he would make light-sensitive with fumes.
He would then expose the copper to bright lights. The daguerreotype was the first type of photograph that could be sold because it lasted for a long time.
Daguerreotypes were good, but they were stiff and heavy. The images could be broken, so you had to keep them in a case.
The Camera
William Fox Talbot invented special paper that is sensitive to light in 1839. He worked out how to use a negative to develop and print a picture.
This made it so that ordinary people could have photographs taken by a special photographer with their camera box. Suddenly the way history was recorded changed because people could take pictures of what they saw in front of them instead of artists’ paintings.
The Motorcar
The first car was made in 1885 by a German engineer called Karl Benz. The car had three wheels and ran on gasoline.
Soon, cars were seen on the streets of Victorian England, but they looked very different from cars today. The speed limit for cars was 4 miles per hour, and there was one worker outside of the car holding a flag, walking in front of it.
People could not travel very far before the car was invented. Now they could go to other places without horses.
The Electric Bulb
Other people in Britain had made electric lights before Thomas Edison. They were called arc lamps and were very bright but did not work for long.
So Edison created a lamp that would last 1200 hours, and he invented the screw fitting we use today to attach it. He also made the meters to track how much electricity we use each day.
Pillar Post Boxes
A pillar post box is tall, and it stands in the street. It is where people can put their outgoing mail. The first pillar post boxes were built in Guernsey in 1852.
Early Victorian post boxes were green. The first red post boxes were erected in London in 1874, and it took nearly ten years for the remainder of the post boxes to be re-painted.
Wireless Radio
In 1895, Guglielmo Marconi sent a signal from Italy, which was the first time that people could transmit and receive messages wirelessly.
Then Guglielmo Marconi transmitted the first wireless signal across the English Channel. In 1901, Marconi was able to receive a radio signal from Newfoundland all the way.
The Penny Black Stamp
Many years ago, people put stamps on the mail they sent. The first stamp was called The Penny Black, and it had a picture of Queen Victoria on it. They were worth one penny.
Before stamps, people had to pay for the delivery of their letter when it arrived at their door. After stamps, they did not have to do that anymore.
The Penny Black was popular when it first came out, but after it got black ink, people couldn’t see the stamp. The Penny Red was much better because it had red ink that could be seen.
The Bicycle
Bicycles were built around the world in 1817. James Starley and Eugène Meyer created a new type of bike that had two wheels, but one was bigger than the other (like a penny and a farthing coin).
It was fast but unsafe to ride because it was easy to be thrown over the front. Queen Victoria owned one of these bikes, but we don’t know if she ever rode it.
The Telephone
Alexander Bell was a Scottish scientist, engineer, and inventor. He spent many years looking for ways to send a voice-only through wires.
He began working with Thomas Watson, and together they made the first-ever telephone call. In the first phone call, Alexander said, “Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you!” Soon, thousands of people had telephones in their homes!
The Typewriter
A typewriter is a machine that prints letters, numbers, and symbols onto paper. It works when you press the keys on the keyboard, and it moves a stamp that presses ink onto the paper.
Scholes and his associates created a typewriter that could be sold in stores. It looked like a table with shelves to put papers on top of but had keys for every letter so people could type faster than they could by hand.
The Electric Telegraph
The telegraph was a way to send messages over long distances. It used wires that electric signals went through.
Samuel Morse designed a code in which each letter of the alphabet was represented by a unique pattern of dots and dashes. This is known as Morse Code.
In 1844, Samuel F.B. Morse sent his first telegraph transmission from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, Maryland. A telegraph line had been built across the Atlantic Ocean between North America and Europe by 1866.
X-rays are a type of radiation that can’t be seen or felt. They go through your body at different speeds, and then a detecting machine points out where the radiation has been slower to pass through.
Before the invention of x-rays, doctors had to guess what was wrong with people by looking at them without seeing them inside their bodies. Wilhelm Röntgen first received Nobel Prize for Physics in 1901 because he invented x-rays and showed doctors how they could “see” inside people’s bodies.
The Underground Railway in London
Before creating the railway, if you wanted to travel from London to Edinburgh via horseback, it would take you 12 days. The world’s first underground railway opened between two places: Paddington and Farringdon. It used wooden carriages and was hauled by steam locomotives and lit by gas lamps.
It was a huge success with 38,000 passengers on opening day. Because there were no ventilation shafts, the smoke would accumulate, and the drivers would be coughing all the time.
The use of steam trains underground led to some health complaints, but when electric vehicles, such as trams were built in the early 1900s, the underground was modernized. Today, the 11 lines of the underground handle up to five million passengers a day!
The Sewing Machine
Elias Howe was an American who invented the machine that makes clothes. It took him five years to invent the machine, and he moved to England to sell it.
Isaac Merrit Singer made the most successful hand-operated sewing machine. It made sewing fast and efficient.
Mr. Singer was the best maker of sewing machines in 1860. He also made them in Britain after he opened his factory in Glasgow. In 1889, he invented the electric-powered sewing machine.
A seamstress could stitch a shirt in 15 hours, but this machine could make the same shirt in only two hours! In 1900, sewing machines were making dresses and tents, sails, bags, book bindings, and flags.
The Flushing Toilet
In the past, people would use holes in the ground or what we call chamber pots in bedrooms.
George Jennings was a plumber who had an idea for a toilet that he had never been seen before. This happened at the Great Exhibition of 1851. People liked it, and 827,280 visitors paid one penny to use it.
The saying “spending a penny” comes from people who had to spend a penny before they could get a clean seat at the toilet. For the penny, they also got their shoes shined, and their hair combed.
Thomas Crapper designed and patented many toilets, but not the modern toilet. He was the first person to have a shop where he could show his work.
Women had to fight for the right to use a toilet. When women began working in industries, they fought for the same rights as men.
Rubber Tires
In 1845, Scottish inventor Robert William Thomson patented the pneumatic tire, or “aerial wheel.” It was not until 43 years later that he put them on his child’s tricycle. In 1888, John Boyd Dunlop invented the pneumatic tire again for bicycles and motorcars. The company is still making rubber tires today!
The Gramophone
Thomas Edison made the first sound recording and playing machine in 1877. It was recorded onto a round cylinder, which you could then play back only once. This wasn’t good because the sound quality was bad.
Emile Berliner invented a new kind of music recorder. People put sound on flat pieces of glass called records. The needle would go over the grooves and turn the vibrations into sounds. This was the gramophone.
Christmas Cards
In 1843, a wealthy man from Britain named Sir Henry Cole wanted to send a card that said “Merry Christmas” to people he knew. A friend of his, John Calcott Horsley, made the first Christmas card and sent it to him. The card had a picture of a typical family celebrating Christmas together and giving something to charity.
Ice Cream Manufacturing
Ice cream was invented in 1851. The inventor was Jacob Fussell. He made it on a large scale, but people have been eating ice and flavored ices for a long time.
Ice cream manufacturing was an accident. Jacob often had too much cream, and then he decided to turn it into ice cream. He made a factory that made lots of ice cream for everyone.
Read more about Famous Inventors and Inventions
- https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/ingenious/victorian-ingenuity/
- https://ironshepherdslivinghistory.co.uk/blog/posts/2019/ten-brilliant-victorian-inventions/
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This Victorian inventors KS2 resource pack, made in partnership with the V&A, uses the inventions of the past to inspire inventors of the future…
The aim of this Little Inventors workshop is to inspire children to use their imagination to help them to think up and draw original, ingenious, funny, fantastical or perfectly practical invention ideas, with no limits.
This workshop offers a fun way to learn about Victorian inventors. Children will explore the design and purpose of real inventions from the Victoria and Albert Museum collection, and get to become Victorian Little Inventors themselves.
This guide suggests how you might want to use the Little Inventors resources to run a structured workshop. However you could also pick and choose from the activities to customise the pack, depending on the age and abilities of children and the time you have available.
Differentiation and extension activities are also provided to enable all children to make the most of the workshop.
In this Victorian inventors KS2 download
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- Learning objectives/outcomes and curriculum fit
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Little Inventors is a creative education organisation that inspires imagination by taking children’s amazing ideas seriously. Visit the website at littleinventors.org . Browse more inspiration for STEM education . Take a look at our KS2 Victorian inventions medium-term plan .
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What was life like in Victorian times?
Living in the Victorian era was exciting because of all the new inventions and pace of change and progress, but it was a hard time to live in if you didn’t have much money. Even very young children had to work if their family needed them to. However, life had improved a lot for people by the end of the Victorian era. Laws were put in place that made working conditions a bit better in factories and mines, and that stopped young children from working by requiring them to go to school instead. More people were living in cities, but hygiene and sanitation was more important thanks to people like Florence Nightingale . Plus, the Victorians started the Christmas traditions like sending cards and decorating trees that we know and enjoy today!
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- The inventions of machines in factories replaced jobs that people used to do, but people were needed to look after the machines and keep the factories clean.
- Factories were built in cities, so people ended up moving to the cities to get jobs. Half the population in Britain lived in cities by the end of the Victorian era.
- Cities became crowded, busy and dirty, but discoveries about hygiene and sanitation meant that diseases like cholera were easier to prevent.
- People in the Victorian era started to use electricity for the first time , and to listen to music by playing records on the gramophone.
- Steam trains made travel a lot easier, and rich people started to go on holidays to the seaside in places like Blackpool and Brighton.
- There was a big difference between rich and poor in Victorian times . Rich people could afford lots of treats like holidays, fancy clothes, and even telephones when they were invented.
- Poor people – even children – had to work hard in factories, mines or workhouses. They didn’t get paid very much money.
- By the end of the Victorian era, all children could go to school for free. Victorian schools were very strict – your teacher might even beat you if you didn’t obey the rules.
- The way we celebrate Christmas was begun in Victorian times – they sent the first Christmas cards and made Christmas crackers.
- Charles Dickens was a famous Victorian author who wrote A Christmas Carol , Oliver Twist and other famous novels.
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- At the beginning of the Victorian era in 1837, most people would have used candles and oil or gas lamps to light their homes and streets. By the end of the Victorian era in 1901, electricity was available and rich people could get it in their homes.
- Poor people could work in mines, in mills and factories, or in workhouses . Whole families would sometimes have to work so they’d all have enough money to buy food.
- Children in poor families would have jobs that were best done by people who weren’t very tall. They would have to crawl in small spaces in mines, or underneath machines in textile mills. It was very dangerous!
- Rich people didn’t have dangerous jobs like these. In fact, some didn’t even have to work! They could afford to buy the new inventions coming out like the telephone, the gramophone (for playing music) and electric light bulbs.
- Rich Victorians were the first to go on seaside holidays – some of the places they’d go are spots where we go on holiday too, like Blackpool, Brighton and Southend.
- Victorian children loved it when their mum and dad let them see a magic lantern show. This was a slideshow of pictures that told a story – the machine that showed the pictures was called a magic lantern.
- Almost all families in Victorian times – except for the very poor ones – would pay people to be servants who would do their household chores for them. This included cooking, cleaning, washing and even serving dinner. Women who were servants were called maids, and men were called footmen. The head servant would be a man called a butler.
- There was a rule for everything in Victorian times – even about the sorts of clothes you’d wear in the morning or evening, and when in the city or in the country!
- All men wore hats in Victorian times (rich men wore top hats, poor men wore caps). When a man wanted to say hello to a lady, it was good manners to tip the brim of their hat down, then push their hat back onto their head.
- It was bad manners if a man spoke to a woman he didn’t know without someone else introducing them first.
- Children always had to say ‘hello’ and ‘goodbye’ to their family members every time the child came in or went out of a room. Try doing that for a day in your home!
- Children were not allowed to shout, complain, interrupt or disagree with anyone . They had to do as they were told, and be cheerful and quiet all the time.
Victorian gallery
- A railway poster advertising Brighton and Volk’s Electric Railway
- Women in a Victorian workhouse
- Clothes that a wealthy Victorian man would have worn
- Victorian dresses with bustles (Credit: Lovelorn Poets via flickr)
- A Victorian hoop skirt
- How children dressed in the Victorian era
- A Victorian magic lantern
- An early Christmas card
- A Victorian living room
- A Victorian kitchen
- A Victorian-style pushchair
Victorian inventions like the steam engine and innovations like steel-making led to machines being made that could produce lots of the same thing at once. Factories were filled with machines like these. While it used to be that one person would be a weaver and make cloth, machines could now do that job instead and make cloth that didn’t cost as much. So, what did people do if machines did all the work? Well, the machines needed looking after, and factory owners wanted people who could do that as well as take care of other little jobs around the factory. Since factories were usually built in large towns and cities, and people needed new jobs, most people moved to where the factories were. By the end of the Victorian era, half of the people living in Britain lived in cities. This meant that cities were crowded and dirty . If you were poor and couldn’t afford to live in a very nice place, it was easy to get sick. There was a large outbreak of cholera in London in 1853-1854 that killed 11,000 people. Most people thought that the disease was coming from areas that just smelled nasty and got passed around through scents in the air, but Dr. John Snow worked out that the disease was actually spreading because of a cesspit that was leaking into a water pump where people drank from. By the end of the Victorian era, London had a better sewage system and sanitation was a bigger concern – plus, people knew more about how diseases are passed from one person to another. Other famous Victorians who believed that proper hygiene and sanitation were needed to be healthy were Florence Nightingale and Dr. Joseph Lister. Dr. Lister was a surgeon who discovered that cleaning wounds and surgical instruments prevented infections. Jobs that people had in Victorian times included usual ones like lawyers, doctors, teachers and vicars, but there were other jobs too:
- Engineers were needed to build bridges, buildings and machines
- Miners to get coal, iron and tin
- Mill workers to keep machines running and produce textiles
- Farm workers to tend and harvest crops
- Railway porters to sort out passengers’ luggage
- Navvies who broke ground for railway tracks to be laid down
- Nightmen to clear out the sewers in crowded cities
- Maids, butlers, cooks and other servants in the home
Steam engines needed coal to run them, so mining coal was very important . Working in coal mines was hard, and sometimes entire families would do it just to earn enough money. There were also mines for iron and tin in different parts of Britain. Only poor people would work in factories and mines, and both were pretty unhealthy places to be. The air would be thick with dust from the mines or from the cotton being spun for cloth, and working hours were long. If someone didn’t have a home (or money to afford a place to live), they could go to a workhouse , which was a place that provided food and beds in exchange for doing work. While this sounds pretty handy, it wasn’t very nice. Men, women and children all had to live separately, so families couldn’t stay together. The food wasn’t very good, and children weren’t taught how to read and write. Everyone had to wear the same uniform, and breaking any rules would mean strict punishment. If you were rich, then life was completely different! Rich Victorians lived in large houses that were well heated and clean. Children got a good education either by going away to school or having a governess who taught them at home (this is usually how girls were educated). Wealthy people could also afford to buy beautiful clothes. All women in Victorian times wore dresses with long skirts, but rich women could get the latest fashions that needed special underclothes to wear properly. They wore dresses that needed hoop skirts underneath to make the dresses spread out in a dome shape around their legs. Or, they wore skirts that lay mostly flat but that poofed out a bit around their bottom – this was called a bustle. All men, whether rich or poor, wore waistcoats. Rich men also wore top hats and carried walking sticks.
Names to know from the Victorian era:
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) – Florence was the founder of modern nursing; she knew it was important to keep hospitals clean and well-run. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) – a famous Victorian author who wrote A Christmas Carol , and many other books about life in Victorian times Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) – a Victorian author from Scotland who wrote the famous children’s stories Treasure Island and Kidnapped . Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) – a popular Victorian poet; one of his poems was ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’, which was about the Crimean War. Thomas Barnardo (1845-1905) – founded children’s charity Barnardo’s in 1870 as a home for children who were orphaned or didn’t have a place to live, which meant they didn’t have to go to a workhouse Mrs Isabella Beeton (1836-1865) – an author who wrote a famous book about cooking and housekeeping that many people in Victorian times used Charles Darwin (1809-1882) – a Victorian naturalist who wrote On the Origin of Species and came up with the theory of natural selection, which led to scientific research into evolution . Joseph Lister (1827-1912) – Lister was a surgeon who introduced the idea of keeping surgical instruments free from germs, and disinfecting wounds.
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- Take a quiz about Victorian life
- See a map of the British Empire in Victorian times
- Explore a Victorian painting
- What can you learn about life in Victorian times from looking at the census ?
- Organise a Victorian Experience Day in your own school!
- Can you spot what differences there were between homes for rich people and homes for poor people ?
- Find out about Washday Monday and domestic life in a 19th century weaver's cottage
- How to make Victorian Christmas crackers and Victorian Christmas tree ornaments.
- Try your hand at Victorian cookery with recipes like beef stew with dumplings (Hodge Podge), roast goose and apple batter pudding
- Learn to play some Victorian parlour games
- Read some Victorian poetry like The Owl and the Pussy Cat by Edward Lear or The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Sing 'Hurrah, the Nineteenth Century' , a KS1 learning song
Best books about Victorians for children
Find out more about Victorian life:
- Watch a kids' video about Victorian life: BBC History: Day In The Life Victorians
- Details of the household staff at Shibden Hall , including the butler, the housemaid and the under-housemaid
- Watch BBC Bitesize videos about life in Victorian Scotland: school in Victorian Scotland , home life in Victorian Scotland , work in Victorian Scotland and holidays and leisure in Victorian Scotland
- Make your own Victorian Christmas
- See Victorian toys like zoetropes, tiddlywinks and samplers
- Listen to short audio dramas about the lives of children in Victorian times on BBC Schools Radio
- Information about lots of different aspects of Victorian life: health , entertainment , crime and punishment and transport and travel
- Find out about Victorian buildings and houses in an architecture podcast from FunKids
- Children's information about Victorian schooling , Victorian fashion , Victorian workers and Victorian families
- Read facts about health and food in Victorian times
- Immerse yourself in fiction books set in Victorian times
- Discover life in a Victorian weaver's cottage the interactive way: listen to and watch the looms and imagine living without heating or electricity
- Find out about 7 innovations which changed Victorian England , including central heating
- Find out about how children worked in Victorian mines and Victorian cotton mills
- Information about Victorian homes : workers' housing and upper class houses
- See a photograph of a Victorian swimming costume
- The life of Michael Marks , entrepreneur and founder of M&S!
- See logbooks from a Victorian school , digitised by Year 5 and Year 6 children
Explore lots of places with Victorian history See life as it was more than 100 years ago at Blists Hill Victorian Town Learn about coal mining in Victorian times at the National Coal Mining Museum for England Visit Tyntesfield , a Victorian stately home in Somerset See writer Thomas Carlyle’s house in Chelsea, decorated as it would have been in Victorian times Explore a Victorian workhouse , and learn about the people who would have lived and worked there Visit the Victoria and Albert Museum in London to see clothes that upper class Victorians would have worn Take a tour of the Charles Dickens museum , which is in a house where the famous author used to live Embark on a virtual tour of the Crystal Palace, site of the Great Exhibition of 1851 organised by Prince Albert , to see its beautiful and innovative design and discover amazing facts about the exhibition it housed
Quick quiz about Victorian life!
Read this page and answer the questions below:
Q: Why might it have been exciting to live during the Victorian era?
Q: Why might it have been difficult to live during the Victorian era?
Q: Name an important invention from the Victorian era
Q: Name a famous Victorian author and at least one of their books.
Q: What laws changed during the Victorian era?
Q: What is a work house?
Q: What was Florence Nightingale known for?
Q: Where did poor people work?
Q: What is a magic lantern show?
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Years 3-6. STEM. This Victorian inventors KS2 resource pack, made in partnership with the V&A, uses the inventions of the past to inspire inventors of the future…. The aim of this Little Inventors workshop is to inspire children to use their imagination to help them to think up and draw original, ingenious, funny, fantastical or perfectly ...
Agnes Bertha Marshall was an English culinary entrepreneur who invented several food preservation methods and kitchen appliances during the late 19th century. She patented an improved ice cream freezer in 1888 and developed techniques for preserving and storing food, contributing to advancements in food technology.
Queen Victoria was born in London on May 24, 1819. At the age of 18, she became Queen of the United Kingdom. Victoria married Prince Albert in 1840, and together they had nine children. When ...
pdf, 169.06 KB. Victorians KS2 planning and resources. Each lesson plan has every resource needed to teach it: Lesson 1 - Victorian homework project and presentation. Lesson 2 - Victorian changes - social, political. Lesson 3 - Diamond nine on Victorian inventions and social changes. Lesson 4a - Thomas Barnardo.
The Industrial Revolution rapidly gained pace during Victoria's reign because of the power of steam. Victorian engineers developed bigger, faster and more powerful machines that could run whole factories. This led to a massive increase in the number of factories (particularly in textile factories or mills). By 1870, over 100,000 steam engines ...
The Victorians Homework Tasks. Subject: History. Age range: 7-11. Resource type: Worksheet/Activity. File previews. docx, 13.86 KB. Homework tasks designed to last up to 10 weeks. A selection of creative and research activities.
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Living in the Victorian era was exciting because of all the new inventions and pace of change and progress, but it was a hard time to live in if you didn't have much money. Even very young children had to work if their family needed them to. However, life had improved a lot for people by the end of the Victorian era.
Britain managed to build a huge empire during the Victorian period. It was also a time of tremendous change in the lives of British people. In 1837 most people lived in villages and worked on the land; by 1901, most lived in towns and worked in offices, shops and factories. During Queen Victoria's reign: Britain became the most powerful and ...
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