Driving a Coach Throug the Eye of a Needle

The Marquis of Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth (1730-1782), wagered that he could drive a coach and horses at full speed through the eye of a needle. The bet was accepted. He then built a large obelisk (nearly 40 ft. high) shaped like a needle, with a passage at the bottom just wide enough to accommodate a coach and horses. He won the wager, and his folly, known as “the Needle’s Eye,” still stands at Wentworth in Yorkshire, England.