One of them having occasion to use a Steele, smoothing Iron, or some such kinde of Laundry Instrument.

Coordinate term: underbanked

Then the ferry-boat was delightful to the new traveller, with its long, white-ceiled passages, and its smell of wet timbers and tarred ropes.

The fact that automobiles, buildings, clothing, bridges, watches, locomotives (my personal favorite, being a ferroequinologist!), ad infinitum are designed by people has no bearing whatsoever...