A failure of mechanisation: a modern handle-operated church organ cannot be turned off, so is removed from the church in the course of the service. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1843.

The church of Wheatham, Hertfordshire, is persuaded by one of its congregation, a City financier, to replace its old organ with a new modern self-playing organ, playing a limited number of hymns and psalms with a hand-operated cylinder, thus saving the salary of the organist. In the course of a service, when the vicar is about to start his sermon, the organ keeps on playing and cannot be turned off, as the stop-handle is broken. The organ, still playing, is removed from the church in the middle of the service, and the church subsequently reverts to a traditional organ played by an organist