machinery-shops

Updated: June 20, 2025

'Haven't you heard about our natural gas the greatest natural gas in the world? Oh, come and see! I was whirled off to a roundhouse full of engines and machinery-shops, worked by natural gas which comes out of the earth, smelling slightly of fried onions, at a pressure of six hundred pounds, and by valves and taps is reduced to four pounds. There was Luck enough to make a metropolis.

Rudyard Kipling - Letters of Travel (1892-1913)