As the Victorian age was slowly coming to a close the brave and exciting Edwardian era was to bring a brief and thrilling period for invention and development. Experiments in wireless broadcasting were already underway, cable telegraph transmissions throughout the Empire were already established, the motor car was beginning to feature on our roads and tracks. But the biggest prize was air flight.
Here is a special feature I have found from The Penny Illustrated Paper of August 1899 that would have thrilled any adventurous Victorian living in a world that was already beginning to shrink.
