If you’ve ever eaten a banana, changed a car tire, or accidentally killed an orchid, then you have the Wardian case to thank. Unfortunately, you can probably also blame this small, sealed ...

In 1829 Dr. Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward of London invented the “Wardian case.” His ferns were dying in London’s smoke-filled air. Then he noticed that some of the sealed test tubes he was using ...

So-called "Wardian cases" had been developed in the previous decade, the 1830s, by Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward, a doctor from London's East End. He was a fern enthusiast but had struggled to grow them ...

The origin of the Wardian case was a scientific experiment with philanthropic aims. It was soon used commercially as a means of transporting living plants from the far corners of the globe to ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) The first journey of a Wardian case was an experiment. In 1829, the surgeon and amateur naturalist Nathanial Bagshaw Ward accidentally discovered that plants enclosed in ...

In 1836, he published a book entitled "On the Growth of Plants in Closely Glazed Cases." Wardian cases, as the glass boxes came to be called, became all the rage in Victorian England. Plants were ...

The phenomenon took off in 1829 when a British botanist named Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward started cultivating the plants in glass cases (later known as Wardian cases; today we call them terrariums).

Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward's miniature greenhouses enabled plants to spread far beyond their native lands - and became a powerful tool for British colonisers. Show more Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward's ...