I don't have a lot to say in this week's post, because really, there's not much I can add to this item from the July 30, 1825 edition of The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, a London publication that was a sort of Reader's Digest of the day, including snippets from other publications as well as original material. I've posted some amusing bits from them before; but air travel in particular seems to have been a popular theme with their editors, as this article demonstrates. I thought it would be more fun to show you the original, so here you go!
Well, that's one way to avoid the problem of airline food...
2 comments:
Well, basically they were on the right track-just about 100 years early. I would probably never travel if I lived back then since I get motion sickness. Air travel 1825 sounds just as bad. I am grateful technology has evolved so we're not flying around in hot air balloons.
I love reading about how air travel was envisioned in those days--the stopping at inns for lunch, just like stage coaches... :)
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