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English[en]
I was the chief scientist. My most celebrated invention was the “steam bomb”. I had a toy steam engine at home, so I understood how powerful steam is. We put some water in a can and soldered the lid, so that the can was, so we thought, completely water-tight. Then we lit a fire under the can.
Cornish[kw]
An godhonydh chif en vy. Ow dismygyans an moyha gerys-da o “tanbellen ethen”. Yth esa dhymm y’n chi jynn-ethen gwariell, may konvedhyn vy ass yw ethen nerthek. Ni a worras nebes dowr yn kanna ha sodra gorher an kanna, mayth esa an kanna, dell grysyn, stanch yn tien. Ena ni a worras tan yn-dann an kanna.