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Science in the Victorian era

The main sciences during the Victorian Era were:

During the Victorian Era, scientists were specially focused on medical advances, since this was the age in which medicine improved by leaps.

Psychology.

Mathematics.

Medicine.

Public Health.

Botany

Chemistry

Geology

Phrenology.

Physics.

Astronomy.

Aspects in Biology such as:

- Physiology

- Anatomy.

- Paleontology.

Main focus:

Important scientists

Bibliography

Nicholas Callan

Charles Darwin

Thomas Edison

Joseph Fourier

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Regarding Medicine

Regarding Medicine

Scientist John Snow

discovered that cholera

was not transmitted by air,

but by water.

Tuberculosis was

found by Robert Koch.

The causes of malaria were found by Ronald Ross.

The X-ray was invented and people started

using it worldwide for

medical purposes.

The two most important and remarkable discoveries in this time were:

Sanitation procedures by Joseph Lister.

Cure for Smallpox by Edward Jenner.

Main

Focus

Scientific discoveries in the Victorian Times

During this period, science started to be seen as an important profession, in its own right.

Inventions of the Victorian Era

Some of the discoveries were:

Electromagnetic waves

The planet neptune

Dinosaurs

The germ term of disease.

The Morse Code and the Telegraph were invented by Samuel F.B Morse in 1837.

The sewing machine by Elias Howe in 1846.

Inventions of the Victorian Era

Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876.

Thomas Edison

invented the

phonograph

and the microphone.

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