But not most things; there was a lot of nonsense back then, too. We all go to work in a bullet fired through a tunnel by pneumatic pressure, right? (This was a

But not most things; there was a lot of nonsense back then, too. We all go to work in a bullet fired through a tunnel by pneumatic pressure, right? (This was a real thing, and they got as far as partially building a tunnel under the Thames for it, before sanity prevailed.)