smoke-distributing

Updated: August 3, 2026

Then we had the whole of the superseded steam-railway system to scrap and get rid of, stations, signals, fences, rolling stock; a plant of ill-planned, smoke-distributing nuisance apparatus, that would, under former conditions, have maintained an offensive dwindling obstructive life for perhaps half a century.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - In the Days of the Comet