Man is a Tool-using Animal (Handthierendes Thier). Weak in himself, and of small stature, he stands on a basis, at most for the flattest-soled, of some half-square foot, insecurely enough; has to straddle out his legs, lest the very wind supplant him. Feeblest of bipeds! Three quintals [hundredweights] are a crushing load for him; the steer of the meadow tosses him aloft, like a waste rag. Nevertheless he can use Tools, can devise Tools: with these the granite mountain melts into light dust before him; he kneads glowing iron, as if it were soft paste; seas are his smooth highway, winds and fire his unwearying steeds. Nowhere do you find him without Tools: without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is all. — Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book I, Chapter 5.
General
- Ages of Technology
- Technology and Leisure in Britain after 1850
- A Review of Joseph Bizup's Manufacturing Culture: Vindications of Early Victorian Industry
- Carlyle and the Institution as Technology
- A Review of Dale H. Porter's The Thames Embankment: Environment, Technology, and Society in Victorian London
- Cotton versus Silk: Sigfried Gideon on Social Class and Mechanization
- The Social Effects of Victorian Railways
- The Victorian Railroad Station — a New Building Type
- Carlyle and Punch, on Victorian Railways
Printing and publishing
- Print Technology and Print Culture in the Victorian Age (overview/sitemap)
- The Victorian Book Industry: Political, Economic, and Technological Factors in the Rise of a Mass Audience
- Victorian Trade Bindings — Technology and Design
- Advertising and Distribution at Mid-century
Technology, Commerce, and Culture
- Adam Smith, Division of Labor, and Assembly-Line Technology
- Malthus's failure to anticipate the growth of technology
- The Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851
- Guglielmo Marconi and the Beginnings of Wireless Technology
- The Times leader on the day after Marconi's death
Literature
- Literature, Science, and Technology
- Inventions in Alice in Wonderland
- Technological Tranformation of the Countryside within In Memoriam and Jane Eyre
- Satire and Science in the First "Information Age"
- The Impact of the Industrial Revolution on Servant-Master Relationships
- Masters, Men, and Industrial technology in Gaskell
- Kipling's Interest in Contemporary Technology
Last modified 23 September 2016