For production designer Gemma Jackson and set decorator Tina Jones, collaborating on Joss Whedon’s supernatural Victorian thriller, “The Nevers,” was like pulling the pin out of a grenade and watching ...

Charles Dickens is one of the best novelists of the Victorian Era, but he's not the only good thing to come out of that time. Contestants ring in... Victorian Inventions Our story begins with a quiz ...

Need to jump from a burning building? A clever 19th-century inventor has just the thing for you: a basket that releases parachutes for an easy descent. The device, along with hundreds of others ...

Ingenious inventions were pushed to outlandish extremes for the show's use of gadgets. For production designer Gemma Jackson and set decorator Tina Jones, collaborating on Joss Whedon’s supernatural ...

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