“Did you know ... that in 1882 London prostitute Gerda Puridle invented elongated eyelashes or ‘cumbrellas’ to block semen from getting in working girl’s eyes that are worn today as common ...

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London in the mid-19th century was becoming the ... and George Edmund Street’s designs for the Royal Courts of Justice, which opened in 1882. Architectural models came to play a central role ...

I CANNOT pretend this year to answer one of the regular questions of the London social season, and say how I think the exhibitions of 1882 compare with those of the previous twelvemonth ; for the ...

On Wednesday, April 26, 1882, the body of Charles Darwin is laid ... Darwin's scientific friends lobbied for a place in Westminster Abbey. The London papers chimed in; one editorial urged ...

In 1879, Thomas Edison created a commercially viable electric light bulb. But a light bulb is useless without the electricity to power it, so a few months later, Edison set up the Edison Electric ...

which began with the Holborn Viaduct power station in London in 1882, the first of its type in the world. Coal went on to play a major role in the national energy supply throughout the 20th ...

Nestled between the river on one side and the famous Hampton Court Palace on the other, the home—known simply as the Chalet—was shipped over from Switzerland in 1882 to be used as a boathouse ...

In 1882, Victorian futurist artist Albert Robida created this amazing lithograph, titled "Going to the Opera in the Year 2000." Dapperly dressed in French attire, monocled socialites and their ...