The Vesuvius and Etna Extinction Company
T Firewood (Hon. Sec.)
Genre: | Advertisement, Spoof |
Subjects: | Engineering, Invention, Steam-power, Charlatanry |
Announces a 'GIGANTIC UNDERTAKING' which it believes will be 'the wonder of the world'—a British-built and financed 'MONSTER STEAM-ENGINE' for pumping water from the Bay of Naples into the active volcano, Mount Vesuvius. | |
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