Edmond Eugène Valton, French
“I Call It a ‘Rolodex.’ Now If I Can Just Get Someone To Invent the Phone I’ll Be in Business,” 1887
Oil on canvas
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/// The men shown here are skilled engineers
who are working on large bevel gears.
Gear rotation, with ease,
shifts by ninety degrees.
(Now they’ll show it to rich financiers.)
/// Gears are quite useful objects, indeed,
at once changing torque, motion and speed.
Complex clocks at their hearts
have these tooled machine parts,
just keep fingers away, or you’ll bleed.
/// Hand-tooled gears cut their teeth on a hob,
while a nob lords it over the mob.
Little minds have hobgob-
-lins that can’t do the job,
and they sob when a knob starts to throb.