Blasting of the Great Copper in the Great Dover Road—Grand Engineering Triumph
Anon
Genre: | Reportage, Spoof |
Subjects: | Engineering, Military Technology, Gender, Domestic Economy |
Describes how Mrs Snooks, a laundress, unblocked a chimney in her washhouse. This relatively trivial domestic operation is treated as if it were a great engineering problem with Mrs Snooks earning the appellation 'engineer-in-chief'. | |
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