"He settled our new acquaintance on the sofa." The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb. Published in The Strand Magazine. Sidney Paget, 1892
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"He settled our new acquaintance on the sofa." The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb. Published in The Strand Magazine. Sidney Paget, 1892
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The Engineer's Thumb
This is our penultimate story from Adventures, with just "The Beryl Coronet" to go.
Holmes doesn't really do much here. He makes one deduction and by the time he gets to the scene, the criminals have fled and don't even get in a shipwreck.
It wouldn't be something Watson would deal with, but injuries and deaths among railway workers were very common at this time; plenty of potential for it in a busy station like Paddington. Public pressure eventually forced action on safety, but not until 1913.
"3d" was a common abbreviation for 3rd.
"Agony column" at the time referred to a section of a paper containing personal advertisements, such as requests for help in finding a missing person. It only later became something where people sort relationship advice.
While there is an Eyford in Gloucestershire, there is none in the former county of Berkshire, which ceased to exist as an adminstrative body in 1998, being replaced by six unitary authorities. Twyford has been suggested as the real location but does not match the later description.
Reading is a large town about 40 miles from London; it can today be reached by train from Paddington in under half an hour, or by a slower ride on the Elizabeth Line. It contains a Victorian replica of the Bayeux Tapestry in the local museum.
Among the uses of fuller's earth was in the film industry to simulate dust and grime, especially in explosions as it's considered safer to cover the actors with. However, concerns about toxicity have led to artificial alternatives like FX Dirt entering the market.
Reading had two stations in remarkably close proximity to each other. The Great Western Railway one linked to Paddington and a terminus built by the South Eastern Railway to the southeast, intended for through services to the Channel ports and services to London Waterloo, which were electrified under Southern Railway ownership on 1 January 1939. Reading Southern as it became known in 1949 was closed to passengers in 1965 with all services diverted into the now-Reading General, which just became Reading in 1974. The old Southern station was demolished, becomng the car park and part of Reading's 1989-built concourse sits on the old western end of it.
India-rubber is another name for latex i.e. the stuff that comes from trees. Synthetic rubber was not created until 1909 and mass production did not begin until the Second World War, when the Japanese seizing the key rubber-producing areas made it a strategic necessity.
Coin counterfeiting continues to this day - the change in Britain to a bi-metallic one pound in 2017 was because over 3% of them in circulation were fake.
Victorian fire engines were much smaller than today's ones, due to limits on the available horsepower. That is because horses pulled them.
Shady jobs with high salaries in an ACD story is 🚩
3D printed a Shuriken for my Toy Design class and this is how it turned out...
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I'm into learning basic Electrical Engineering-related Studies and then I found my Love's old notes during his 4th year. He's one of the smartest people I know and his handwriting was a bit odd and so his way of thinking. But I love it. 😜

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'Well,' said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return once more to London, 'it has been a pretty business for me! I have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what have I gained?' 'Experience,' said Holmes, laughing. 'Indirectly it may be of value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your existence.'
The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb
I feel impelled to add a little meta on this, as it could be easy to read this as an example of Holmes’ insensitivity to clients while preoccupied by a stimulating intellectual puzzle: “LOL, maiming!” For a number of years, I couldn’t really see how to read it otherwise. But! I now incline to the belief that this light, urbane reply is really quite sensitive. 1) It’s not maudlin, and doesn’t suggest that Hatherley is to be pitied; he’s a technical expert, and not dependent on his thumb for the pursuit of his profession, so he’ll be fine. 2) The engineer is a new kind of worker in the late Victorian city: white-collar and upwardly mobile. Holmes’ suggestion that Hatherley can literally dine out on his weird story reassures Hatherley that not only will his missing a thumb not disqualify him from accessing new social experiences, but it’s likely to help him. Holmes is obviously more cynical about this than Hatherley is, but then, Holmes has a Bohemian soul.