EPISODE · Nov 23, 2018 · 1H
#501 Hidden Technology
from Science for the People · host Rachelle Saunders, Bethany Brookshire, and Carolyn Wilke
This week we spend the hour with Kat Jungnickel to discuss her new book "Bikes & Bloomers: Victorian women inventors and their extraordinary cycle wear". New technology can change social expectations and sometimes requires other new inventions so everyone can participate. Those might sound like modern problems, but Victorian Britain in the 1890's had to answer the question: how can a woman use the latest must-have technology, the safety bicycle, while wearing a corset and long, multilayered skirts?
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