books.google.co.uk - Dishwashers, electric light bulbs, gramophones, motion picture cameras, radios, roller skates, typewriters. While these inventions seem to speak of the 20th century, they all in fact date from the 19th century.The Victorian age (1837-1901) was a period of enormous technological progress in communications,...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Inventing_the_19th_Century.html?id=CT6qpyafJp0C&q=device&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareInventing the 19th Century