Victorian invention
Nineteenth-century British creation
A Victorian invention is something created during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901), a period of rapid industrial and technological progress.
The phrase often carries connotations of elaborate mechanical ingenuity, ornate design, or quaint obsolescence: The contraption looked like some Victorian invention.
It can describe actual historical creations or suggest something charmingly old-fashioned or needlessly complex.
- telegraphElectrical message system
- steam engineThermal vapor motor
- steamHeated water's gaseous form
- engineMachine producing motion
- gaslightDistort someone's reality
gas lamp · phonograph · railway · iron horse · factory · industrial · brass · clockwork · patent · Edison · workshop · contraption · apparatus · machinery · innovation · gadget · flying machine · progress
Victorian inventionancient invention
Creation from distant past
ancient technology · prehistoric tool · futuristic technology · Roman engineering · digital technology
Victorian inventionelectronic device
Circuit-powered apparatus
computer technology · hand tool · artificial intelligence · wireless technology · biotechnology
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