Punch,  17 (1849), 44.

A Lucky Escape for Somebody

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Electricity, Meteorology, Travel, Transport


    Noting the electrical conducting powers of bodies containing water, believes the people who stood up during a storm behind an omnibus must have been 'the greatest Conductors of electricity in the world' since they were completely soaked.



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