Punch,  19 (1850), 129.

Barclay and Perkins's Draymen to Punch

Barclay and Perkins's Draymen

Genre:

Letter, Spoof

Subjects:

Telegraphy, Electricity


    An employee of the leading firm of brewers, Barclay and Perkins, expresses ignorance of the reason why 'the 'lectric fluid carries a message through the bottom of the sea, without being put out'.



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