Regency Science and Invention: the 1801 Census
With the US Census rapidly approaching, I am thinking about counting people and its origins. On March 10, 1801 the first British Census was held. Continue
With the US Census rapidly approaching, I am thinking about counting people and its origins. On March 10, 1801 the first British Census was held. Continue
The Picture of London for 1802 The Farington Diary (1923) In the early 1800s in No. 1 Leicester Square, a curiosity was on display for Continue
A “pioneering paleontologist and fossil collector” Mary Anning was born in 1799 in Lyme, England and was the first explorer of what is now called Continue
La Belle Assemblee, 1806 The 17th century saw the first automaton devices coming into popular imagination. In the 18th century, the mechanical toy took off, Continue