Punch,  8 (1845), 158.

How to Heat the House of Commons

Anon

Genre:

Essay, Drollery

Subjects:

Engineering, Heat, Government, Politics


    Notes David B Reid's experiments on heating the House of Commons. Suggests numerous plans for heating the house including having Benjamin Disraeli and the Prime Minister Robert Peel fight each other, and inviting Michael Faraday to 'warm the House by scientific means'.



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