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The steel flea

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Description: Styled as a folk tale, The steel flea tells a story of a left-handed arms craftsman from Tula (traditionally a center of the Russian armaments industry) who outperformed his English colleagues by providing a clockwork steel flea he'd made with horseshoes and inscriptions on them.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1916.
Call number: 242274
Creator: Leskov, N. S (1831-1895)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 21 cm
Associated people: Hapgood, Isabel Florence, (1850-1928.); Leskov, N. S. (1831-1895.)
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