Punch,  21 (1851), 74.

Railway Dialogues

Anon

Genre:

Dialogue, Spoof

Subjects:

Exhibitions, Instruments, Invention, Technology


    Two gentlemen on a train returning from the Great Exhibition discuss such familiar and less familiar instruments as the 'sphaero-Condenser', 'the Zinickotimodai, for the waistcoat-pocket', and 'the Antephlebotomon for children'.



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