Tuesday 28 April 2015

Person X. . . . The A to Z of Slightly Strange Unknown Victorian Inventors and Explorers



Person X

There are few things that are still covered by the official secrets act of Great Britain that have their origin back in the Victorian Era, one or two shock stories relating to the government itself and the one about the Royal Family (yes we all know that anyway).  However there is one that deals with a device so ahead of its time that even now it is felt that it should remain entirely secret and is only known as device X and even this is speculative. It is said that one of the members of the Preposterous Club of Great Britain was discussing a substance he had accidently discovered as part of an experiment to create gold from base metals.  The substance which he called Substance X had rather unique powers but no one knew how to harness the powers in a productive way.

Then someone now only now only Person X invented Device X; a device that it was felt could revolutionize the whole way of life for mankind on planet Earth.  Of course the members of the Preposterous Club of Great Britain were Wealthy Victorian Gentlemen and changing the way of life for all of mankind when they were actually living a rather comfortable lifestyle was a worry. As was the thought of going mad and thinking they were Penguins.  So it was that the Preposterous Club of Great Britain approached the Government of the day for advice about both Substance X and Device X. The Government concerned that if the public became aware of the device would become rebellious and march on the houses of parliament, immediately made anything connected in anyway to the device an official secret. . . code named The X Files.


It is said the device still exists in a high security military establishment in Wales and has a twenty four hour permanent guard; although it is thought the guards themselves are unaware of the true nature of what they are guarding; having been told it is merely a thermal nuclear device of some sort. The government of the day even went to the extreme of removing X from the Welsh alphabet as part of a deception plan, meaning that Device X can not exist in Wales by that name because there is no X. . . . 

15 comments:

  1. I hope that no one in Wales discovers that they can hook a V together with a ^. Then we are soon e[put both here]tinct.
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    1. They thought of that Mr ESB there is no V in the Welsh alphabet either. . . . .

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    2. Is there a ¥? Surely there are a few Japanese people with ¥ there.

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    3. That was made from / and \.

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    4. I tried to Google the Japanese character and Google found no results. I put this down to the secretive nature of Device X..

      I am not entirely convinced that last X is all that X looking the gap is still a bit on the big side.

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    5. If you look at it optically from 10,000 meters it wiLL appear more fuZZy and more Xish. I put the 'optically' in there because I didn't want you to get in your vehicle and drive 10 kilos and pull the web page up on the internet and say it looks eXactly the same.

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    6. AH my technology is rather crude Mr ESB I am limited in accessing the internet to the length of the mains cable and CAT5 cable to my old trusty PC. And I would need to carry it and the monitor so maybe I will limit the experiment to I metre. I will look at it through the wrong end of a small telescope.

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    7. Love it, "Wrong end of a small telescope" hahahahahahahahahahahaha

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  2. Oh, I am intrigued. I must know what this is, for I shall go doolally! I love and hate mysteries simultaneously.

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    1. But if you knew Miss Lily it would change everything and the government are keen that things do not change. Which is why they are keen that we all vote for one of the main parties in the election. They would all be doomed if device X was public knowledge which is rather ironic as they want us to put an X next to their name. A point I would like to point out that is not a coincidence. But a confusing one for the Welsh where X does not exist. . . .

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  3. Argh! I must know what it is now! This will drive me mad.

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    1. Apparently this is a side effect of knowing about Device X. . . Folk have been known to believe they are Penguins and put Bicycle wheels on their heads.

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  4. You are a very silly person. I will follow your blog with interest; and a butterfly net, just in case.

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    1. That is very kind of you to say so. . . . HANG ON is being a silly person good . . . . I will assume yes

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