Georgina Gramophone Goshwell . . . .

Georgina Gramophone Goshwell

Georgina Gramophone Goshwell is the first woman to be included on the list of The A to Z of Completely Unknown Victorian Inventors and Explorers. Mainly because for many years there was great uncertainty about which sex she was, a result of her large false handle bar moustache and tall stovepipe hat.

Georgina or as she was known at the time George, had worked with the right Honourable Arnold Alexander Axle Armstrong-Atlas in developing the Armstrong-Atlas Amplifying Alignment Armature.  However after a certain incident of which neither would talk about George (Georgina) developed her (his) own invention the Goshwell Ground Gauge which was used to measure subsidence in the ground. A device that was particularly useful to the Victorians as they loved to dig tunnels, leading to cracks in buildings and sinkholes.

And all would have been well had Georgina (George) not agreed to do the Victorian Gentleman Inventors naked Charity Calendar.  Strangely most of the Victorian gentleman inventors themselves were not worldly wise and did not notice that George (Georgina) was a woman with a large false handlebar moustache. But once they were informed they discredited her work and she was told that women can’t be inventors so that the royalties for her invention must be handed to a good cause. All the money was given to the Green Acres Retirement Home for Naval Officers and Georgina became a dancer at the Folie Bergere where she met Benjamin Braithwaite Browning helping him to refine the Barometric Bellows. 

In later life she was said to have moved to Hong Kong where she worked on tap dancing novelty clockwork toys that were able to escape from a locked toy box tied into a sack and sealed in a tank full of water with an unnamed associate of suspicious character.