 There is an anecdote of a wheeltapper who had worked diligently for years wheeltapping without ever questioning or understanding the purpose.This originated with Rudyard Kipling in Delhi, and is referenced in his work "Captains Courageous" of 1897, although it had spread to the United States by 1932.A German version of the story was told by the German humourist Sigismund von Radecki.