Punch,  5 (1843), 82.

The Aerial Transit Company

Anon

Genre:

Reportage, Spoof

Subjects:

Aeronautics, Invention, Politics


    Reports that this company has been asking Joseph Hume for assistance, knowing Hume's experience of 'building castles in the air', but warns that Hume cannot be trusted in this regard, since 'his undertakings having invariably fallen to the ground'.



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