( We would learn what happened to dinner. We would also go miniature golfing, except for augustforth, who was trying to go macroscopic golfing with the available equipment. Some of this could be taken to be quite a lot of fun. )
Trivia: An 1832 survey of 249 factories east of the Appalachians found that four were steam-powered. Source: An Empire Of Wealth, John Steele Gordon.
Currently Reading: Empire Of The Air: The Men Who Made Radio, Tom Lewis.