WILLIAM HEATH ROBINSON'S name is said to have begun its passage into the English language in the House of Commons a few years before the First World War, when an MP described an Austrian air display as being performed by 'Heath Robinson contraptions'.
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"WILLIAM HEATH ROBINSON'S name is said to have begun its passage into the English language in the House of Commons a few years before the First World War, when an MP described an Austrian air display as being performed by 'Heath Robinson contraptions'."
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