Month: January 2018

The Secret Recipes Of The 19th Century It’d be too easy for me too look at the famous secret recipes of products like Coca Cola and Kentucky Fried Chicken. We all know these are old products and their recipes are Read more…

Crazy Inventions Of the 19th Century C.A. Asbrey  Cholera pants were believed to protect against the chills which were thought to cause disease, and that keeping the stomach and abdomen warm could protect against bowel complaints.  The Victorians still believed Read more…

Things Invented Much Earlier Than You Think C.A. Asbrey Many of the inventions below do have counterparts which hail from ancient times, such as the battery and the vending machine, but for the purposes of this piece I am looking Read more…

The 19th Century – The Invention Of Modern Times Bruce Robinson   If you were born in the early nineteenth century, you were in for a big surprise: by 1900, the world you had grown up in was gone for Read more…