Presented by Kalpar

The nineteenth century saw the advent of numerous new and strange technologies. The adoption of these new technologies often lead to superstitious beliefs about the technology or opens new questions about the world around us. Learn how science and the supernatural advanced hand in hand in the nineteenth century.


Kalpar – Polymath, historian, ferroequinologist, numismatist, these and other fancy words could be applied to Kalpar with varying degrees of accuracy. Kalpar has a fascination with the technology of the nineteenth century and how it affects our world today.


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