PANTECHNICON • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Pantechnicon

... courier and a carriage. As to the latter it occurred to him that he might perhaps get for little money "some good old shabby devil of a coach—one of those vast phantoms that hide themselves in a corner of the Pantechnicon;" and exactly such a one he found there; sitting himself inside it, a perfect Sentimental Traveller, while the managing man told him its history. "As for comfort—let me see—it is about the size of your library; with night-lamps and day-lamps and pockets and imperials ...

— The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete • John Forster