According to http://www.emotioncards.com/ John Callcott Horsley an English painter invented the first greeting Christmas card. Horlsey made the card for his friend as a favor. He had no knowledge that the card would soon turn into a big discovery. Everyone started to order cards which open Horsey invention into a huge economic business.

-Elaine Punch =)

Vaccination

According to www.zephyrus.com.uk/edwardjenner.html an English man namedEdward Jenner discovered vaccination for small pox. Jenner believe that cowpix gave off the immunity of smallpox and if this vacccination was giving to people it would lessing their chances of death. This vaccination saved many helpless lives and nine years later a medical doctor picked his discovery up and brought it into a hospital.

-Elaine Punch =)

MatchEs

According to wikipedia.com John walker was the first English chemist who invented friction matches.He made a mistake and mixed potassium chlorate, gum , starch and anitmony sulfide providing friction. He believed that he can spark a fire any where as long as there was friction and the few chemical he had.Matches was first sold in april of 1827.

-Elaine Punch =)

Medical science established

The human body and the medical field was an area of science that was not so clearly established/formed. Scientists focused on inventions to make everyday life easier, but sickness and injury was treated with traditional ways.

"Despite the exciting advances that took place in science and medicine in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it was only in the nineteenth century that medicine itself became scientific. This was largely the result of the integration of the natural sciences into medical theory. During the eighteenth century the foundations of scientific medicine were first established."

(http://www.bookrags.com/research/overview-medicine-1800-1899-scit-051234/)

Since the human body was an unknown field, Mary Shelley made a good choice by experimenting with it. She gives Dr.Frankenstein such an ambition and passion towards a field of science that is waiting for a revolutionary movement to happen. It just so happens that he was the initiator of the major movement in the medical/human body field.
-Michael

science advances

The 1800s was a fast paced time in science, new inventions and new ideas and new possibilities. With all the inventions that were being made, anything was possible. Scientists challenged the laws of gravity, physics, nature, and life. There was no such thing as a bad idea. If it was new and revolutionary, any scientist would try to accomplish it.

"The 19th century was the age of machine tools - tools that made tools - machines that made parts for other machines, including interchangeable parts. The assembly line was invented during the 19th century, speeding up the factory production of consumer goods.

The 19th century gave birth to the professional scientist, the word scientist was first used in 1833 by William Whewell. Inventors began to design practical internal combustion engines. The lightbulb, telephone, typewriter, sewing machine, all came of age during the 19th century."

(http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/Nineteenth.htm)

Mary Shelley very fittingly made the possibility of the creation being created in this era, because new inventions were taking the world by storm. Anything was possible.

-Michael

In 1779 Samuel Crompton invented the spinning mule that combined the moving carriage of the spinning jenny with the rollers of the water frame. The spinning mule gave the spinner great control over the weaving process alot of different types of yarn could be produced.
-Vinicios Santos

science as a profession

Mary Shelley gave Frankenstein such a powerful interest for science. His powerful interest lead him into studying more into the field. Frankenstein had every intention of turning science into his profession. Very fittingly, science was becoming such a new and big field that had many varieties and possible titles as professions in the 1800s.

"The 19th century saw the birth of science as a profession; the term scientist was coined in 1833 by William Whewell^[9]. Among the most influential ideas of the 19th century were those of Charles Darwin, who in 1859 published the book The Origin of Species, which introduced the idea of evolution by natural selection. Louis Pasteur made the first vaccine against rabies, and also made many discoveries in the field of chemistry, including the asymmetry of crystals. Thomas Alva Edison gave the world a practical everyday lightbulb. Karl Weierstrass and other mathematicians also carried out the arithmetization of analysis. But the most important step in science at this time was the ideas formulated by Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell. Their work changed the face of physics and made possible for new technology to come about."

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century)

-Michael