Punch,  18 (1850), 109.

The Advantage of Lodging under a Mechanical Genius

William Newman

Genre:

Illustration, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

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Illustrators:

N, pseud.  [William Newman] *

Subjects:

Engineers, Mechanics


    Shows two floors of a building: on the bottom floor, a man is woken by a counterweight crashing through his ceiling, an object which is attached to a clock in the room of the 'mechanical genius' above.



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