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We Have So Much to be Thankful for

celticeagle @celticeagle (189874) • Boise, Idaho 11 Feb 23

In this day and age, we have so much to be thankful for. We no longer have to fetch our own water. We no longer have to make candles for lighting. So many things we have nowadays. When there was a big party they would put up an...

This one is... interesting to say the least. A 1916 invention, this gun would fire as long as the wearer blew into a tube which was connected to the trigger mechanism.. Oh and on top of that [b]it could be used in the...

fiber optics

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Weird Inventions: Helmet Gun

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104615) • United States 6 Feb 21

Or well, the inner tube. This was invented by M. Goventosa de Udine around 1925. I just don't see this as being very comfortable. The inner tube is made out of a rubber material and I can see it rubbing against wet skin and...

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Weird Inventions : Bike Tire For Swimming

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104615) • United States 4 Feb 21

Now here's something to give you nightmares. The isolator helmet was invented in 1925 and was made to block out all distractions. Noise? That wasn't an issue with this helmet. Nor was keeping your eyes on the task at hand. The...

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Weird Inventions : The Isolator

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104615) • United States 3 Feb 21

Now this one's for the seamstresses out there. This contraption was invented in 1939 by Charles Steinlauf. The video below shows his family out and about while his wife tends to the sewing. Such a weird thing to invent. I'm...

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Weird Inventions : The Goofybike / Steinlauf Bike

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104615) • United States 2 Feb 21

I think this one is for the books. Which books? I guess a Guiness one.. Either way, these were made in and around 1931-1949. There were some made with a hard shell and some, like in the video below, made with a...

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Weird Inventions : Radio Hat

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104615) • United States 1 Feb 21

We owe the invention of the safety pin to a nervous man. Walter Hunt was focusing on his debts when he began to worry a piece of wire between his fingers. He bent it this way and that and quickly realized that it could...

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Accidental Inventions : The Safety pin

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104615) • United States 31 Jan 21

What comes to mind when you think of the phrase fire escape? For me it's a metal set of stairs that extend from a window in an apartment building. It goes from the top floor of a building to the ground. Well that's not...

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Weird Inventions : Fire Escape

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104615) • United States 31 Jan 21

So what do you think is the best invention that mankind has ever come up with? I have a few ideas - let's see if you agree: 1 - String: where would we be without string to tie up parcels; 2 - The pencil/pen: for writing lists or...

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Best invention ever!

Bill McAlpine @ScotMac (1335) • Edinburgh, Scotland 17 Oct 20

"It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer." - Albert Einstein I'm having trouble with patience today; so I purposely looked for a quote that addressed it. Albert Einstein must have been a very...

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Quote Challenge - Patience

LindaOH @LindaOHio (222417) • United States 23 Jun 19

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"Best Thing Since Sliced Bread?"

Just an Ordinary Owl? @owlwings (43897) • Cambridge, England 14 Apr 19

The first bread slicing machine was invented in 1912 but the first prototype was destroyed in a fire and it wasn't until 1928 that Otto Rohwedder had a machine ready. Its first commercial use was, reputedly, by the Chillicothe...

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A Self Made Man

celticeagle @celticeagle (189874) • Boise, Idaho 14 Feb 19

Benjamin Franklin was one of my favorite characters from history. Famous for so many inventions such as electricity,the Poor Richard's Almanac, and the bifocal I think that if I had the choice of meeting someone from the past it...

Do you have a preference? The nostalgic hand watch or analog as they are called uses time displayed with a numbered dial upon which the clock hands are rotated and point to the numbered location. There is a rotating hour hand...

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Hand Watch (with numbers) or Digital Watch?

DB @dgobucks226 (37621) 24 Aug 18

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American Treasure- Crayons

DB @dgobucks226 (37621) 5 Apr 18

Here is a little information on a popular kids toy. When used in conjunction with a coloring book it provided many hours of fun. Was this activity a favorite of yours? CRAYON HISTORY In 1903 Pennsylavania's (U.S.) Binney &...

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Could you get rich on one of your little inventions?

Susan @HazySue (39265) • Gouverneur, New York 10 Mar 18

Have you ever watched those commercials on television about calling inventions.com to have them help you get your invention sold? Most of us have watched them and through, I should have come up with that idea. I know I...