Taken from the Kearney Files copy of lecture given at the Society of Engineers.
Quote taken from the Lecture given by Mr Elfric Wells Chalmers Kearney at The Society of Engineers on the subject of The Kearney High-Speed Railway.
Mr Bernard Shaw, in answer to the president's invitation to him to speak, said he should be trifling with the audience if he were to do do, as he was not an engineer. He had the aptitude for the profession to agree with the last speaker, for he had never been able to understand why the switchback railway was not adopted as a method of transit. He had noticed that the deep level escalator at Oxford Circus took exactly a minute and a half to go up. A dramatic expert could write a substantial portion of a play between platform and the street; or, if he preferred to watch the young ladies coming down on the other side, he could see that they managed to read a good deal of the literature that interested them during the interval.
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