serial killers, 219, 221–226
Shapiro, Ann-Louise, 212
Shelley, Mary, xi, 30, 57, 59–61, 68, 70, 74–75, 78–79, 82, 86–88, 91–92, 102, 115
Shelley, Percy, 60, 87
Sherlock Holmes, xi, 148, 208, 226–227, 229, 236–255
shipbuilding, 138
showmanship, xx
Sign of Four, The (Doyle), 240
Simmons, James R., 191
simulations, 44
Six Days’ Journey to the Moon (White), 178
skepticism, 30
Slavery Abolition Act, 177
slavery/slave trade, 95–96, 107, 177, 196
Sloane, Hans, 92, 94
slums, 144, 178
Smellie, William, 47, 49, 50, 52
Snow, John, 136
soap, 203, 204
Socialist League, 191–192
solar system, 80
Somerville, Mary, 117, 120, 123
Somnium (Kepler), 17–18
Sopwith, Thomas, 134, 135, 137
soul, 37–39, 45
South Pole, 102–106
spectacles, 44, 46
Spenzer, John George, 230, 253
spetroscopy, 152–153
Spies, August, 193
Spilsbury, Bernard, 244–245
spiritualism, 153, 247–262
Stalin, Josef, 181
Starry Messenger (Galilei), 13
stars, 7–8, 80, 82
static electricity, 63–64
steam engine, 60, 83–84, 116, 129, 133–134, 135
Steam House, The (Verne), 213
steam power, xv, xvii, 61, 84, 116, 134, 213
steampunk, x, 259
aesthetic, xv–xvi, 131, 187, 206, 258
defined, xi, xi–xii, xiii
ethos, xx, 93
history of, xii–xiii
mad scientist in, 115
origins of, xix
steamships, x, 117, 128–131, 138–139
steel, 234
Steinmetz, Charles Proteus, 164–165
Steltzner, Adam, 167
Sterling, Bruce, xi, 119, 125, 128, 130
stories, ix–x
string theory, 9
Study in Scarlet, A (Doyle), 232, 237–239, 253
Sugg, Richard, 41
sulfuric acid (vitriol), 201, 208–213, 214
sun, 7, 14, 82, 156
sundials, 6
superstition, 25, 74, 88
surgery, 40, 41–42, 202–207
Swedenborg, Emanuel, 247
Swift, Jonathan, 11
“Swiss Chalet,” 33
Szigeti, Anthony, 158, 159
T
Taddeo, Julie, xi
Tahiti, 99–101
Taichung Power Plant, 118
Tarde, Gabriel, 211
Taylor, Alfred Swaine, 243
technological change, xiv–xv
technology, x, xi
abuses of, xvii
competing visions of, xviii–xix
dangers of, xviii–xix
impact of, xiii, 258–259
nature of, xii
negative side of, 171, 175–181
triumph of, xiv
warfare, xvi, 139–140, 155, 156
telautomatics, 154–156, 166
telegraphs, 117, 130–131, 135, 138–139, 144, 254
telescopes, 18, 80
terrorists, 193–194, 258–259
Tesla, Nikola, 142, 146–170, 187, 214, 249, 250, 251
textile mills, 175–181, 191
Thales of Miletus, 62
Thames River, 136
Thirty Years War, 5
Timbuctoo, 108
time, xiii
time travel, xiii
Tofts, Mary, 49
toilets, 5
Tower Bridge, 139
toxicology, 233–234
Track Banshees, 119
trauma, 259
“Traveling Academy of UnNatural Science,” xii
Treatise on Man (Descartes), 32, 42
trigonometry, 7–8
Twain, Mark, 155
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Verne), 96–97, 213–214
typhoid, 136, 144
U
universe
age of, 80
clockwork, 12, 21, 29–30, 36
Copernican system, 8–9, 14
Kepler’s model of, 14–16
mechanics of the, 6–10
organization of, 82
unchanging, 3–4
utopian visions, xiv, xv–xvi
V
Van Helsing, xi, 88, 200, 218
Vaucanson, Jacques de, 43–44, 46, 47
Vaughan, Ralph, 148
Verne, Jules, xi, xvi–xvii, 13, 30, 95–98, 101, 104, 108–111, 132, 185–188, 191–196, 210, 213
Vesalius, Andreas, 40, 42, 231
Vick, Diana, 258
Victoria (queen), 173, 197
Victorian Age, xvi, xvii, xviii–xix, 111–112, 118, 141
Victorians, x, xx
Virilio, Paul, 171, 176
vitalism, 87
vitriol, 201, 214
vitriol throwing, 208–213
Volta, Allessandro, 61, 75–78, 82, 116
von Liebig, Justus, 219–221
Voodoo, 94–95
Voskuhl, Adelheid, 43, 44
Vril, The Power of the Coming Race (Bulwer-Lytton), 150, 153–156
W
Wallace, Willard, 93–94
Wampanoag, 128–131, 138, 147, 160
war technology, xvi, 139–140, 155, 156
wars, 5
warships, 139
Washing Away of Wrongs, 230
water pollution, 136
Watt, James, 60, 83–84, 116
weapons, 155, 182
Wells, H. G., xi
Wentworth, Annabella, 123
Westerfeld, Scott, 200
Westfall, Richard, 22
Westinghouse, George, 160–161, 166
Westinghouse Electric, 146, 161–165, 218
Wheatstone, Charles, 130–131, 135
Whewell, William, 117
Whitechapel Gods (Peters), 10–12, 25, 27, 29, 51, 53, 93, 117, 139, 170, 181, 231, 258
whiteness, 105
Whitman, Walt, 67
Whitson, Roger, xii, xii–xiii
Whittle Dene Water Company, 137
Wild Wild West, The, xi, 199–200, 225
Willis, Thomas, 38, 54
Winter, Alison, 151–152
witchcraft, 95
witches, 8
Wöhler, Friedrich, 219–220
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 59
womb, 49
women, 51
childbirth by, 47–53
role of, 48
vitriol attacks by, 211–212
Wootton, David, 4, 5, 29, 46
work week, 182–183
workers, 175–182, 187, 191–193, 196, 209–213
workers’ rights, 175
World War I, 155
World’s Fair Hotel, 219, 221–223
World’s Fair of Chicago, 118
Writer, The, 42–43, 44
written language, 4
Wynter, Andrew, 153
Z
Zarkadakis, George, 125
Zeus, 62
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