Suffragettes and Steel Pens are Modern.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIII, Issue 14, 6 October 1909, Page 3

Suffragettes and Steel Pens are Modern.

Steel pens and Suffragettes are two of the many inventions of this modern age that were unknown sixty years ago, according to C. V. Burge, who has written a book called "The Adventures of a Civil Engineer.” In this book Mr. Burge gives a short list of things now in common use that were unknown in 1840. The list comprises steel pens, envelopes, notepaper, lawn tennis, motorcars, bicycles, ironclads, screw steamers, electric telegraph, sleeping and dining cars, electric light, telephones, lifts, large hotels, fountain pens, garden parties, afternoon tea, tramways, photographs, postcards, perambulators, spring mattresses, plate-glass, bitter beer, torpedoes, breech-loaders, revolvers, wooden pipes, competitive examinations and cramming, art colours, society papers, illustrated magazines, hypnotism, Christian Science, millionaires, massage, volunteers, typhoid, diphtheria, airships, Suffragettes, Salvation Army, tinned goods, fish knives, goloshes, waterproofs, gas heating and cooking, sewing machines, threepenny bits, florins, Venetian blinds, spiritualism, weather forecasts, posters, moustaches, wood pavements, hospital nurses, lady helps, limited liability, Victorias, Cook’s tourists, dyspepsia, parcel post, appendicitis, hot-water bottles, and bacilli.