The God Engine of Manchester
The fog had been over Manchester for three weeks. It rolled down from the Pennines like a living thing, thick with coal smoke and the stink of the mills, and settled over the Thames below London as though the city itself were breathing out its own filth. In the winter of 1879, Sir Edmund Hardwick believed the fog was changing. "It accelerates," he told his assistant, Miss Isabella Crawford,...
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