Victorian technology: invention, innovation, and the rise of the machine

Series foreword

Preface

Chronology

Introduction

1: Factory system

2: Living machine and the Victorian computer

3: Great Exhibition of 1851: the architecture of the machine and the rise of commodity culture

4: Shrinking the globe, expanding the Empire

5: Social effects of industrialization: protest and reform

6: Late Victorian invention

Conclusion: Gain and loss

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index.