the telephone by Sir Alexandadra Bell and the lightbulb by Sir Thomas Edison are the most famous but the Victorians are most famous for writers, scientists and nurses.
Some funky & famous inventions: * lava lamps (and the phase-changing materials used within them) * shag carpets * non-perishable astronaut foods (ability to lypholize or dehydrate ANY food) *...
Significant Victorian novelists and poets include: the Brontë sisters, (Anne, Emily and Charlotte Brontë), Christina Rossetti, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edward Bulwer-Lytton,...