Punch,  54 (1868), 273.

Electrical

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Electricity, Invention, Technology, Domestic Economy, Machinery, Psychology


    Discusses a proposal to place a 'regular galvanic apparatus, and a small Rhumkorff coil' in a woman's chignon, where is would attract 'the sparks' and produce the 'requisite flutter in the body of the bird' and in the human heart.



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