Industrial Revolution Buff Gifts

Memorials of The Great Exhibition - 1851. No. XII. - Sincere grief at the destruction of the Crystal Palace

Memorials of The Great Exhibition - 1851. No. VIII. - Awful result of giving a season ticket to your wife.

Energy Company.

"You're describing a grand hotel!"

'Dr.Sall Thompson got so excited over the new spring design she took a quantum leap!'

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

Brian's canine Tread-o-Sod saved him the trouble of cleaning up after Mitzi.

There were originally four musketeers. He said that the pen is mightier than the sword.

Minority Report

"Tonight we are going out to plunder, lads!"

'Now that you've moved in and unpacked, Higgins, we'd like you to start thinking outside of the box.'

Before they settled on water, shower pioneers experimented with a number of alternatives, including spaghetti,

If the Brontë sisters wrote science fiction

'Trevor was the first rep at the office to have a portable computer.'

'I'm afraid this new self you reinvented has already been patented.'

'for more obit info, go to...'

'I told you Kimble, you weren't irreplaceable.'

'Apparently, the next guy has invented a time machine!'

Verbal Orders

"My self-driving car is wintering in Florida."

"Tractors, Sir - thousands of 'em!"

"The times – They have a changed."

The Department of Emerging Technologies.

Copyrighted Ideas

Copyright and copyleft

The American Nightmare.

'You see Mum, I told you that if I can spin a web, I can do 3D-printing...'

"IS this an unauthorised social gathering?"

Small time farmer sees Superfarm robots next door

Kit makes an appointment

Planner at work.

Man with lots of hair, holding a bottle of hair tonic waits outside of the patents office.

"Whaddya say, Black? We'll plunder the seas together. You scratch my back; I'll scratch yours."

Memorials of The Great Exhibition - 1851. No. XIII. - The ladies and the police - the battle of the Crystal Palace

'It's a project to develop a stamp mucilage that tastes like beef stew.. it's funded by Andy Rooney.'