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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.
- Publication date
- 1916.
- Call number
- 242274
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Associated people
- Hapgood, Isabel Florence, (1850-1928.)
- Leskov, N. S. (1831-1895.)
