light, 20, 78, 81–89, 116
medical, 214–216
practical, 156–157
scientific progress in, 127, 133–134
Tesla and, 146–170
electromagnetism, 121, 127
electrostatic induction, 66
Elis, Andrew W.B., 206–207
Elswick Works, 132, 137, 139, 182–185
emotion machines, 54
empathy robots, 54
empires, 93
energy, x
Engels, Friedrich, 176–182, 185–186
engineering, 116–117, 131–138, 176
engineering power, 118
engineers, 117, 131–138
English Civil War, 5, 9
English Physitian, The (Culpeper), 31–32
ENIAC, 125
Enlightenment, 41, 60–61, 69–72, 74, 75
enlightenment, 60, 61, 100, 105
enslavement, 94
entrepreneurs, 131
entropy, 21
Epicurus, 33
epicycles, 7
equant, 7
Esquirol, Jean-Étienne, 157
Essinger, James, 127
Etsy, 206
explorers/exploration, 61, 92–101, 101
Africa, 107–112
arctic, 102–106
northwest passage, 104
F
factories, 175–181, 191, 193, 197, 209–213
Fairfield, Charles, 193–194
fantasy, 25
Faraday, Michael, 86, 89, 121–122, 127, 128, 131–136, 156, 214, 255
feeling, 43, 52–54
Felling mine, 85
femme fatales, 212
Fielding, Henry, 230
Finlay, Mark, 221
fire, 4
fire-damp, 84
fleas, 5
flight, 75–76
Flinders, Matthew, 103
food production, 219–220
food supply, xiv
forceps, 47, 52
forensics, 224–226, 230, 232–246, 253–255
Forster, Thomas, 78
Fowler, Richard, 72–74, 77
Fox, James, 6
Fox, Kate, 248
Fox, Margaret, 248
Fraction, Matt, 148
Franchi, Stefano, 45
Frankenstein (Shelley), xi, 57, 59–61, 68–70, 72–75, 78, 79, 86–88, 91–93, 102, 108, 152
Frankenstein Unbound (Aldiss), xi
Franklin, Benjamin, 29, 61, 66–70, 74–76, 82
Franklin, H. Bruce, xvii
Franklin, Kate, xii, 82
Franklin, Sir John, 104
Frederick, Frank, 105
French Revolution, 192, 193
Frozen Deep, The (Collins), 104
future, xiii, xv, xx, 258, 259
future predictions, xiv
G
Galen, 40
Galilei, Galileo, 8–9, 12–13, 18, 23, 33
Galvani, Luigi, 61, 70–74, 76–78, 116, 214
Galvanic Hospital, 214–215
galvanism, 71–74, 81, 87, 121
Garfield, James, 204
Gaskell, P., 209–211
General Electric, 164, 165
genocide, 94
geometry, 16
George, Henry, 193
germ theory, 42, 202–205
Gettler, Alexander, 224–225
Gibson, William, xi, 119, 125, 128, 130, 258, 259
God, 5–6, 12, 16, 18–21, 26, 29–30, 32, 36, 92
Godwin, William, 59
Golden Compass, The, xi
Gordon, Richard, 202
Gordon, Thomas, 85
Gotham by Gaslight, 200
Gould, Jay, 144
Grainger, Richard, 137
Gramme, Zenobe, 118
Gramme dynamo, 157
Grandfather Clock, 10, 27, 29, 36, 51, 54, 197
Gray, Stephen, 64–65
Great Eastern, 138–139, 160
Great Western Railway, 137, 139
Gross, Hans, 241–242, 244
Guedalla, Philip, xviii
guns, 139, 140, 156, 206–207
Güzeldere, Güven, 45
H
Haigh, John George, 219, 223–225
Halley, Edmund, 104
handwashing, 204
Hanson Robotics, 37
Hard Times (Dickens), xvii, 51, 136, 175
Harriot, Thomas, 13
Harris, Ruth, 212
Harris, Tessa, 95
Harvey, William, 40
Hauksbee, Francis, 62–64, 66
Hauksbee machine, 63, 76, 82
Haymarket Riot, 193
Heald, Henrietta, 132, 183
Heart of Darkness (Conrad), 110–111
heaven, 16–17, 28
hegemony, xv
heresy, 8–9, 28
Herschel, Caroline, 120, 122
Herschel, John, 120, 122, 128, 168
Herschel, William, 18, 79–81, 95, 111
His Dark Materials (Pullman), xi
history, xiii, xix, 119
Hoeveler, Diane Long, 105
Holbein, Hans, 6
Holmes, H.H., 219, 221–223
Holmes, Richard, 79, 80, 86, 100, 107, 110
Home, Daniel Dunglas, 251
Homo sapiens, 4
Hornemann, Friedrich, 108–109
hospitals, 231–232
hot-air balloons, 75–76
Hugo, Victor, 189–190, 192, 195
human bodies, 31–34, 36–37, 39–40, 44, 45, 54
human dissection, 40
humans, 4
Humboldt, Alexander von, 120
Hume, David, 29–30
Hunter, Michael, 85
Hunter, William, 47
hydraulic cranes, 134, 137
hydraulic engine, 134
hydraulic power, 61, 134, 137, 141–142, 217
Hyndman, H. M., 190
hysterectomy, 49
hysteria, 49
I
immortality, 28, 226, 230
imperialism, 110–111
incandescent light bulb, 145–146
inductive method, 122
industrialization, xvii, 10–11, 116–118, 141, 144, 174
industrial revolution, xvii–xviii, 117, 175–177
infectious diseases, 5, 11–12, 94, 136–137, 144
Infernal Devices (Jeter), xi
innovation, 82, 186
Inquisition, 8–9
insulators, 64
intelligent creator, 4
International Exposition of Electricity, 118, 196
Internet, xvi
Invention of Hugo Cabret, The (Selznick), 39, 43, 47
inventions, 30, 45, 115, 116, 138
inventors, 45–47, 54–55, 115, 157–158. See also specific inventors
Isherwood, Benjamin Franklin, 128, 129
Ishiguro, Hiroshi, 38, 45, 53, 127
J
Jack the Ripper, 11
Jacquard Loom, 124–125
Jacquet-Droz, Pierre, 43, 44, 45
Jamaica, 94–95
Jenkins, Henry, xi–xii, xvii, 206
Jeter, K. W., xiii
Jonnes, Jill, 144
Journey to the Center of the Earth (Verne), 104
June Days uprising, 186–187
K
Kang, Minsoo, 52
Kant, Immanuel, 69
Kaye, Emily, 244
Keely, John Ernst Worrell, 154
Kelvin, Lord, 153, 165, 166
Kemmler, William, 161
Kendall, May, 210
Kennedy, Hugh, 209
Kepler, Johannes, xx, 9, 13–19, 22, 25, 32, 54
Kircher, Athanasius, 39–40
Kratzenstein, Christian, 70
Kratzer, Nicholas, 6, 8
Kruesi, John, 145
Krüger, Johann, 70
L
La Mettrie, Julien Offray de, 38, 44–45, 47, 54, 177
labor movement, 182–186, 191–1
97
labor/laborers, 175–181, 191–197, 209–213
Laennec, René-Théophile-Hyacinthe, 231–232
Lafarge, Charles, 234–235
Lafarge, Marie, 234–236
Lalande, Jérome, 80
Lamme, Benjamin, 163
lamps, 86–87
Laplace, Pierre-Simon, 80
Law of Animation, 82
Lazarus Curse, The (Harris), 95
Le Creusot, 187
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The (Moore), xi, 246–247
Leaves of Grass (Whitman), 67
Leclerc, George-Louis, 69
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 10, 23–30, 62, 83, 116, 120
Leibniz-Clark papers, 27–28
Leiden jars, 65–66, 69, 77–78
L’Homme. See Treatise on Man (Descartes)
life, 151
light, 20, 78, 81–89, 116
light bulbs, 144–146, 159, 164
lightning, 60, 62, 68, 69
lightning rods, 69
Lister, Joseph, 42, 201, 204–206
Liston, Robert, 202–203
Livingstone, David, 107
Lobb, Harry, 214, 215–216
Locard, Edmond, 242–243, 253
Locock, Charles, 215
Lombroso, Cesare, 211
London, 5, 10–11, 136, 144, 191
Long, Edward, 94
Louis XIV, 5
Louis XVIII, 233
Lovelace, Ada, 111, 123–128, 130, 133
Luddites, xvii, 175, 177, 190
lunar geography, 17–18
Lunardi, Vincenzo, 76
Luther, Martin, 9
M
MacDonald, George, 16–17, 111
machines, x, xiii, xvii, 54
as the enemy, 212–213
factories and, 175–181, 209–213
first, 33
humans as, 38–39, 44–45
Mackintosh, Angus, 206
Mad Max, xii
mad scientist, 70, 115, 163, 169
magic numbers, 9
magnetism, 63, 150, 151, 214
Mahon, Patrick, 244
“maker” cultures, xi
Mama Engine, 10, 39, 51–52, 54, 197
man-midwives, 47–53
Marsh, James, 225, 233
Marsh test, 232–233, 235, 236
Martineau, Harriet, 173
Marx, Karl, 181, 185–187, 190, 192
mass transit, xvi
mathematics, 3–7, 12–13, 16, 19–21, 30, 140
calculus, 21–26, 28, 119–120, 202
continental, 120
physio-mathematics, 46
Mauchly, John, 125
Maudsley, Henry, 193
Mayhew, Henry, 51, 178
McDermid, Val, 236, 243
McGrath, Patrick, 205
McLynn, Frank, 107–108
meat juice, 220–221
mechanical generator, 63
mechanical mother, 47–53
mechanics, 36
mechanistic philosophy, 33–34
medical devices, 63, 70
medicine, 5, 31–32, 39–43, 47–53
antiseptics, 202–207
aseptic, 207
batteries, 215–216
bloodletting, 40–41
corpse, 41
electricity and, 70, 214–216
forensic, 224–226, 230, 232–236, 240–246, 253
germ theory, 42, 202–205
midwifery, 47–53
pathology, 232, 243–244
surgery, 202–207
Melville, Herman, 105
Men, Machines, and Modern Times (Morison), ix–x, xi, 13, 257–258
Menabrea, Luigi, 124, 127
Menlo Park, 144–145, 159
Mesmer, Franz Anton, 152, 214
mesmerism, 152, 248–249
methane, 84, 85
Metropolis, 210
microorganisms, 203–205
middle class, 176–177, 181, 186–187, 190, 191
midwifery, 47–53
Miéville, China, xii
Miller, Cynthia, xi
mind, 37, 38, 54
mind-body dualism, 37
Miraikan, 38
Mitchell, Charles Ainsworth, 254
Mitchell, Silas Weir, 251
Moby-Dick (Melville), 105, 138
monomania, 157–158
monsters, 86, 88
Montgolfier, Jacques-Étienne, 75–76
Montgolfier, Joseph-Michel, 75–76
Moon, 17–18
Moore, Alan, xi, 246–247
Morison, Elting, ix, xviii, xix, 30, 44, 45, 54, 92, 129, 257–258
Morison, George Shattuck, x, xiii–xiv, xviii, xix, 4, 13, 59, 82, 92–93, 111, 113, 116–117, 125, 133, 139, 145, 177, 196, 209, 229, 259
Morris, William, 190–192, 193, 196
Morrison, Alan, 217
Morrison, Arthur G., 10–11
Morton Stanley, Henry, 107–108
mother machine, 47–53, 88, 232
movies, xi, 200
murders, 218–226, 243–244, 253–254
Muri, Allison, 38
music, 46
Musschenbroek, Pieter van, 61–62, 65, 67, 82
myth of Icarus, 75
myths, 23
N
Nantes, France, 95–96
Napoleon III, 186–188, 192, 195, 233–234, 251
Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, The (Poe), 104, 105
natural gas, 84, 85
natural philosophy, 25
nerves, 77
Neverwas Haul, xii, 119
New Epoch, 4–5, 59, 92–93, 113, 170, 181–182, 257, 258
New Epoch, The (Morison), ix–x, xiii–xiv, xviii
New World, 94, 133
New York, 144
New Zealand, 101
Newcastle, England, 131, 137, 173–174
Newcomen, Thomas, 83
Newton, Isaac, 4, 9–10, 12, 18–30, 32, 45, 62, 63, 116, 119–120
Niagra Power Station, 148, 162–163
Nietsche, Frederick, 30
Niger, 108
Night of the Bubbling Death, 218
Nihell, Elizabeth, 52
Nine-Hour Movement, 182–185
“Ninety-Five Theses” (Luther), 9
nitric acid, 214
Noble, Andrew, 183
Nolan, Christopher, 148
Norris, Charles, 225
North Pole, 104, 105–106
northwest passage, 104, 106
novels, 200
nuclear weapons, 155
numbers, 4, 9
numerology, 16–17
O
Oates, Titus, 105–106
Obeah, 95
O’Hare, Shannon, xii
O’Neill, James, 151
operating rooms, 204–205
Opticks (Newton), 4
order, 18, 21, 29, 55
Orfila, Mathieu Joseph Bonaventure, 233–236
organic chemistry, 219–220
P
Padua, Sydney, 126, 128, 140
Palmer, Arthur, 143
paradigm shift, 8
Paris, 187, 195–196, 211
Paris Exposition of 1864, 187, 195
Paris in the 20th Century (Verne), xvi–xvii, 187–188, 191–195
Paris World’s Fair, 196
Park, Mungo, 92, 108–111
past, xii, xiii, xv, 80, 259
Pasteur, Louis, 202–203, 204
patents, 84, 144
pathologists, 232
pathology, 243–244
Pattern Recognition (Gibson), 258
Pemberton Mill, 180–181
pests, 5
Peters, S. M., 10–12, 29, 41–42, 258
petroleum, 52
phenol, 201–207
Philippe (king), 186, 187
philosophy
mechanistic, 33–34
natural, 25
Phipps, George Augustus Constantine, 215
photography, 254
physicians, 231–232
physio-mathematics, 46
pig iron, 234
Pilâtre de Rozier, Jean-François, 76
Plana, Giovanni, 124
planetary movement, 14–16
planets, 7, 14–15, 80
Planté, Raymond-Louis-Gaston, 217
plastics, 52
Poe, Edgar Allen, 104
poisons, 95, 232–235
police, 231. See also detectives
pollution, 136, 249–250
Pope, Alexander, 29
postmodern era, xvi
poverty, 178
power, x, xiii, 11, 61, 82, 84, 92–93
electric, 61, 134, 141, 166–167
engineering, 118
hydraulic, 61, 134, 137, 141–142, 217
manufacture of, 116, 118, 134
steam, xv, xvii, 61, 84, 116, 134, 213
storage of, 216–217
Power, Henry, 4–5, 11, 32
power looms, 175–176, 177
present, 259
Prestige, The, xi, 148, 169
Prichard, James Cowles, 157
Priest, Cherie, xi
Priest, Christopher, 148
privation, xx, 229
proof, 14
Protestant Reformation, 9
Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph, 192
Ptolemy, Claudius, 6–7, 8, 12, 14, 103
publishing, 13
puerperal fever, 203, 204
Pullman, Philip, xi
Pulvermacher chain, 215–216
punch cards, 124–125, 127, 128
Pure War (Virilio), 171
Puritans, 9
Pye-Smith, Charlie, 217
Q
quantum physics, 9
R
railroads, xviii, 117, 137, 176
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 93–94
reanimation, 78–79, 101
religion, 5–6, 8–9, 12
Rendel, James, 140
reproductive machine, 47–53
research laboratory, 144
retro-future, xvi
revolution, 191–193, 196–197
Reynolds, Jeremiah, 105
Richardson, John Wigham, 134, 135
Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The (Coleridge), 98, 102, 104
Riskin, Jessica, 32, 44
Ritter, Johann, 79
robots, xvii, 37–38, 45, 54
Rocke, Alan J., xvi
Romain, Pierre, 76
Rome, 11
Royal Society, 62, 63, 68, 78, 100, 117–118, 121, 122, 129, 133, 135
Ryle, Gilbert, 37
S
safety lamps, 86–87, 225
sanitation, 136–137
Schafer, James, xii, 82
science, xix, xx, 4, 25
applied, 130–131
Enlightenment and, 60–61, 74, 75
secular, 28
types of, 115–116
science fiction, xi, xii, xvi
beginnings of, 18, 79
mad scientist, 115
scientific knowledge, 118
Scientific Revolution, 8, 12
scientists, 115–117, 130
Scotland Yard, 230, 231, 254
Scott, Robert Falcon, 92, 105–106
séances, 247, 248–249, 251
Sebastopol, 140
secularism, 28
Seifer, Marc, 156–157, 164, 166
Selznick, Brian, 37, 39
Semmelweis, Ignaz, 203–204
September 11, 2001, 258–259