In the third installment of our journey through Victorian architecture, we travel to the north and west of England to explore how new technologies - especially iron casting and glass manufacturing - led Industrial Era engineers to build entirely new types of buildings for an entirely new - and rapidly expanding - market.
At the same time the first modern geologists and biologists were arguing about the meaning of the distant past, Victorian architects were engaging in...
In this episode, we continue or exploration of sites in Texas' Hill Country that illustrate how fossils can reveal the behavior of extinct species....
In this episode, we travel to London to follow the story of Charles Darwin in the years between his return to England following his...