usual trivia

Post date: Mar 23, 2014 8:59:9 AM

Reading my Charles Todd post WW1 detective novel, (Charles Todd incidentally is the nom de plume for a mother son writing team) I got to wondering about authenticity when there was an electric torch being used to hit people on the head (and shine a light if still functioning afterward) in 1920. I doubted this but I was wrong! In 1899 the torch was patented and by 1920 they have even been working as they should!