#Victorian engineering

Stories tagged “Victorian engineering” in the Weird Science History archive — 3 stories connected by this topic.

• The Ship-Sinking Clam That Taught an Engineer How to Dig Under the Thames
• The Engineer Who Built a Flip Table to Shake a Gold Coin Out of His Own Windpipe
• The Railway That Ran on Suction — and the Rats Blamed for Eating It

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