What inventions & science looked like in the 1850s
Vast glass halls full of steam engines and machines show off the industrial age.
Top hats, crinolines and gas lamps fix the era.
1850s moments in the game
Dating a inventions & science scene
- Lighting
- Candles and oil lamps before 1820; gas lamps to about 1890; bare electric bulbs after 1880; fluorescent tubes after 1940.
- Machines
- Brass and polished wood instruments are 1700–1900; steel and Bakelite 1900–1950; beige plastic and screens after 1970.
- Exhibition halls
- Huge glass-and-iron halls are the great fairs of 1851–1900; Art Deco pavilions point to the 1920s–30s.