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by Brandy Schillace


  serial killers, 219, 221–226

  Shapiro, Ann-Louise, 212

  Shelley, Mary, xi, 30, 57, 59–61, 68, 70, 74–75, 78–79, 82, 86–88, 91–92, 102, 115

  Shelley, Percy, 60, 87

  Sherlock Holmes, xi, 148, 208, 226–227, 229, 236–255

  shipbuilding, 138

  showmanship, xx

  Sign of Four, The (Doyle), 240

  Simmons, James R., 191

  simulations, 44

  Six Days’ Journey to the Moon (White), 178

  skepticism, 30

  Slavery Abolition Act, 177

  slavery/slave trade, 95–96, 107, 177, 196

  Sloane, Hans, 92, 94

  slums, 144, 178

  Smellie, William, 47, 49, 50, 52

  Snow, John, 136

  soap, 203, 204

  Socialist League, 191–192

  solar system, 80

  Somerville, Mary, 117, 120, 123

  Somnium (Kepler), 17–18

  Sopwith, Thomas, 134, 135, 137

  soul, 37–39, 45

  South Pole, 102–106

  spectacles, 44, 46

  Spenzer, John George, 230, 253

  spetroscopy, 152–153

  Spies, August, 193

  Spilsbury, Bernard, 244–245

  spiritualism, 153, 247–262

  Stalin, Josef, 181

  Starry Messenger (Galilei), 13

  stars, 7–8, 80, 82

  static electricity, 63–64

  steam engine, 60, 83–84, 116, 129, 133–134, 135

  Steam House, The (Verne), 213

  steam power, xv, xvii, 61, 84, 116, 134, 213

  steampunk, x, 259

  aesthetic, xv–xvi, 131, 187, 206, 258

  defined, xi, xi–xii, xiii

  ethos, xx, 93

  history of, xii–xiii

  mad scientist in, 115

  origins of, xix

  steamships, x, 117, 128–131, 138–139

  steel, 234

  Steinmetz, Charles Proteus, 164–165

  Steltzner, Adam, 167

  Sterling, Bruce, xi, 119, 125, 128, 130

  stethoscopes, 232

  stories, ix–x

  string theory, 9

  Study in Scarlet, A (Doyle), 232, 237–239, 253

  Sugg, Richard, 41

  sulfuric acid (vitriol), 201, 208–213, 214

  sun, 7, 14, 82, 156

  sundials, 6

  superstition, 25, 74, 88

  surgery, 40, 41–42, 202–207

  Swedenborg, Emanuel, 247

  Swift, Jonathan, 11

  “Swiss Chalet,” 33

  Szigeti, Anthony, 158, 159

  T

  Taddeo, Julie, xi

  Tahiti, 99–101

  Taichung Power Plant, 118

  Tarde, Gabriel, 211

  Taylor, Alfred Swaine, 243

  technological change, xiv–xv

  technology, x, xi

  abuses of, xvii

  competing visions of, xviii–xix

  dangers of, xviii–xix

  impact of, xiii, 258–259

  nature of, xii

  negative side of, 171, 175–181

  triumph of, xiv

  warfare, xvi, 139–140, 155, 156

  telautomatics, 154–156, 166

  telegraphs, 117, 130–131, 135, 138–139, 144, 254

  telescopes, 18, 80

  terrorists, 193–194, 258–259

  Tesla, Nikola, 142, 146–170, 187, 214, 249, 250, 251

  textile mills, 175–181, 191

  Thales of Miletus, 62

  Thames River, 136

  Thirty Years War, 5

  Timbuctoo, 108

  time, xiii

  time travel, xiii

  Tofts, Mary, 49

  toilets, 5

  Tower Bridge, 139

  toxicology, 233–234

  Track Banshees, 119

  trauma, 259

  “Traveling Academy of UnNatural Science,” xii

  Treatise on Man (Descartes), 32, 42

  trigonometry, 7–8

  Trinity, 19

  Twain, Mark, 155

  20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Verne), 96–97, 213–214

  typhoid, 136, 144

  U

  universe

  age of, 80

  clockwork, 12, 21, 29–30, 36

  Copernican system, 8–9, 14

  Kepler’s model of, 14–16

  mechanics of the, 6–10

  organization of, 82

  unchanging, 3–4

  utopian visions, xiv, xv–xvi

  V

  Van Helsing, xi, 88, 200, 218

  Vaucanson, Jacques de, 43–44, 46, 47

  Vaughan, Ralph, 148

  Verne, Jules, xi, xvi–xvii, 13, 30, 95–98, 101, 104, 108–111, 132, 185–188, 191–196, 210, 213

  Vesalius, Andreas, 40, 42, 231

  Vick, Diana, 258

  Victoria (queen), 173, 197

  Victorian Age, xvi, xvii, xviii–xix, 111–112, 118, 141

  Victorians, x, xx

  Virilio, Paul, 171, 176

  vitalism, 87

  vitriol, 201, 214

  vitriol throwing, 208–213

  Volta, Allessandro, 61, 75–78, 82, 116

  von Liebig, Justus, 219–221

  Voodoo, 94–95

  Voskuhl, Adelheid, 43, 44

  Vril, The Power of the Coming Race (Bulwer-Lytton), 150, 153–156

  W

  Wallace, Willard, 93–94

  Wampanoag, 128–131, 138, 147, 160

  war technology, xvi, 139–140, 155, 156

  wars, 5

  warships, 139

  Washing Away of Wrongs, 230

  water pollution, 136

  Watt, James, 60, 83–84, 116

  weapons, 155, 182

  Wells, H. G., xi

  Wentworth, Annabella, 123

  Westerfeld, Scott, 200

  Westfall, Richard, 22

  Westinghouse, George, 160–161, 166

  Westinghouse Electric, 146, 161–165, 218

  Wheatstone, Charles, 130–131, 135

  Whewell, William, 117

  White, T.W., 178

  Whitechapel Gods (Peters), 10–12, 25, 27, 29, 51, 53, 93, 117, 139, 170, 181, 231, 258

  whiteness, 105

  Whitman, Walt, 67

  Whitson, Roger, xii, xii–xiii

  Whittle Dene Water Company, 137

  Wild Wild West, The, xi, 199–200, 225

  Willis, Thomas, 38, 54

  Winter, Alison, 151–152

  witchcraft, 95

  witches, 8

  Wöhler, Friedrich, 219–220

  Wollstonecraft, Mary, 59

  womb, 49

  women, 51

  childbirth by, 47–53

  role of, 48

  vitriol attacks by, 211–212

  Wootton, David, 4, 5, 29, 46

  work week, 182–183

  workers, 175–182, 187, 191–193, 196, 209–213

  workers’ rights, 175

  World War I, 155

  World’s Fair Hotel, 219, 221–223

  World’s Fair of Chicago, 118

  Writer, The, 42–43, 44

  written language, 4

  Wynter, Andrew, 153

  Z

  Zarkadakis, George, 125

  Zeus, 62

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  Death’s Summer Coat

  CLOCKWORK FUTURES

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