Punch,  9 (1845), 139.

The Smallest Improvement Thankfully Received

Anon

Genre:

Editorial

Subjects:

Railways, Sound, Invention, Transport, Accidents


    Voices public desire for a whistle to be invented, which will allow one train to warn another of 'approaching danger', especially because death by railway accident is too high a price to pay for 'their whistle'.



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