Through the Glasgow looking glass

Featured in Previews, ATG No 2449, was an amusing illustration of the Vacuum Tube, a proposed new means of mass transport from the pages of the Glasgow Looking Glass, a publication that has come to be widely regarded as the world’s first comic.

Published at John Watson’s lithographic press, the first issue appeared in June 1825 and it ran un…

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