More Marvellous Victorian Inventions

So MasterKAF and MrsDTB are back with another thrilling instalment of More Marvellous Victorian Inventions.

MasterKAF is hard at work reading the book,  Great Victorian Inventions by Caroline Rochford, which inspired this little project of ours. Mrs DTB has also been looking through a different book, The Ingenious Victorians by John Wade which expands on the whole subject of the weird and wonderful ideas that the Victorians had in this age of innovation. 

Ones we found in our house

The Tell-Tale Milk Jug had marks on the side so you knew how much milk was in the jug. It had secondary markings that revealed the quality of the milk based on how much cream there was because as MasterKAF found out, the cream rises.

The modern Pyrex Jug basically performs the same function and we use them every day. 

 

Inventions we wish still existed

All-terrain vehicle: The road and river cycle was introduced in America for travelling across roads and rivers in a single vehicle, thereby eliminating the inconvenience of having to travel for miles around stretches of water.