Showing posts with label machines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label machines. Show all posts
Sunday, April 13, 2008

Clocks With "Wheels"

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1901 "Clocks are certainly queer things," said the man who was tinkering at the hall clock in a suburban house the other day. ...
Monday, April 7, 2008

Mustn't "Own" Their Engines

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1901 The railroad engineer who "owns" his engine is not in favor with his superiors. Complaints about trivial matters are likely t...

The Story of a Mean Man

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1901 This is the story of a mean man. He may not be the meanest on record, but he carries a very fair brand of closefistedness. He had a con...
Friday, July 13, 2007

Chance for Inventive Genius

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1910 By Col. J. M. Mabry of Memphis Many persons wonder why no shrewd inventor has ever yet devised a machine that will pick cotton. Many an...
Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Device Will Interest Children Fond of Playing Marbles

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1905 Science in the Nursery This is a country of inventors and an age of machinery. Labor-saving devices enter not only into our work, but a...
Monday, June 25, 2007

Perpetual Motion Machine

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1909 Runs Perfectly Without Any Aid, Declares Pennsylvania Inventor UNIONTOWN, Pa., Oct. 6. — After labor of years Allen S. Snyder believes ...
Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Gun Fires Million Bullets an Hour

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1910 NEW YORK. — A gun that, its inventor says, can shoot a million bullets an hour at a cost of $20, that uses neither powder nor compresse...
Thursday, June 7, 2007

Advantages of the Spanking Machine

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1905 "I see," said the mother of five, "that out in Peoria, Ill., they've invented a machine for spanking children. She c...
Friday, April 20, 2007

Latest Progress: Phonograph Croons Baby Lullabies, Cradle Rocks

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1903 Brass Lullabies for Babies. Further cause for indignation among the cult, that is for getting back to nature and old-fashioned ideals a...
Sunday, April 15, 2007

They're Smoking Cigarettes to Match the Gown

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1920 Cigarets Same Color As Gown Paris. — Cigarets rolled in paper dyed delicate shades of rose, blue, green or orange are declared by the D...
Saturday, April 14, 2007

No Lunatic Asylums in Antiquity

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1912 Insane Asylums The great Greek physicians had devoted much attention to insanity, and some of their precepts anticipated modern discove...
Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Cow Tail Holder Shown at Inventors' Congress

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1935 Los Angeles. -- And now the "cow tail holder" has appeared to make this world a better place in which to live. It and some 50...
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