Inventions
Smog Helmet
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 23, 2024 -
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Category: Inventions, 1950s, United Kingdom
The Panama Ship Tunnel
You know, once you state the idea, it just all seems so obvious and practical.Read the article here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 11, 2024 -
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Category: Inventions, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, Caves, Caverns, Tunnels and Other Subterranean Venues, Mental Health and Insanity
Combination Fallout Shelter and Swimming Pool
Full patent here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 30, 2024 -
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Category: Inventions, Patents, Recreation, War, Atomic Power and Other Nuclear Matters, 1960s
The Anti-Earthquake Bed and other inventions of Dahir Insaat
The videos of the Turkish company Dahir Insaat are a viral phenomenon online, but I wasn't aware of them until recently. So perhaps they'll be new to some of you as well. Some info about the company and its strange videos from Wikipedia:One of Dahir Insaat's designs is for a bed that becomes a "fortress" in an earthquake. Critics have described it as a claustrophobic coffin.
Another design is for an aerial train. Insaat says it could travel at 400 mph with electricity supplied by a tether that is linked to an electrified rail. This rail runs on the ground between stations.
The firm's other designs include a drive-thru supermarket which would literally be driven through and a gyroscopic transport vehicle that would move above traffic.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Oct 29, 2024 -
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Category: Inventions, Video
Louvered Sunglasses
Wouldn't you look chic wearing these? And no more viewing the world through "rose-colored glasses."Original patent here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 25, 2024 -
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Category: Inventions, Patents, 1950s, Eyes and Vision
The Ring-O Pool Table
One hole only. Learn more here, at the site dedicated to the inventor, Irving Kaye.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 16, 2024 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Inventions, Sports, 1960s
Protose
Read more about this early meat substitute here.Kellogg credited his interest in meat substitutes to Charles William Dabney, an agricultural chemist and the Assistant Secretary of Agriculture. Dabney wrote to Kellogg on the subject around 1895.[16]: 119
In 1896, Kellogg introduced but did not patent "Nuttose", the first commercially produced alternative to meat. Nuttose was made primarily from peanuts and resembled "cold roast mutton".[42]: 6 By seasoning or marinating, Nuttose could be made to taste like fried chicken or barbeque. Served with mashed potatoes and vegetables, it could mimic a traditional American meal.[69]
On March 19, 1901, Kellogg was granted the first United States Patent for a "vegetable substitute for meat", for a blend of nuts and grain cereals called "Protose". In applying for US patent 670283A, John Harvey Kellogg, "Vegetable-food Compound", issued June 8, 1899, Kellogg described Protose as a product "which shall possess equal or greater nutritive value in equal or more available form... By proper regulation of the temperature and proportions of the ingredients, various meat-like flavors are developed, which give the finished product very characteristic properties."[42]: 6 [70] Nuttose and Protose were the first of many meat alternatives.[69]
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 15, 2024 -
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Category: Food, Imitations, Forgeries, Rip-offs and Faux, Inventions, 1900s
Telephone Muffler
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 13, 2024 -
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Category: Inventions, Telephones, 1910s
Pop-Up Postcards
We know that Pop-Up books are a well-liked category. So why not apply the notion to postcards?Full patent here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 11, 2024 -
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Category: Inventions, Patents, 1900s, Postal Services
Seated Sleeping Aid
Full patent here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 03, 2024 -
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Category: Inventions, Patents, Medicine, Sleep and Dreams, 1910s
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