Steam Engines for the Waistcoat Pocket
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Steam-power, Invention, Technology, Domestic Economy |
Responding to an account of a 'Portable Steam Engine' in the Scottish Agricultural Gazette [i.e. Journal], believes the invention would be of no assistance without a portable coal cellar. Expresses no faith in 'Portable' inventions, citing a case of a 'Portable House' that, owing to wrongly numbered floors, led its builder to construct it 'topsy-turvy'. |
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