37 Crazy Inventions of the Past
To this day, these products remain way ahead of their time. We may never come around.
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1. The Dimple Maker, 1936
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2. The flying bicycle
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3. The personal submarine
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4. Robot answering machine
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5. The Japanese "war tuba" which was used to locate enemy aircraft by sound prior to the invention of radar.
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6. The motorbike powered boat.
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7. The 1961 Buick "Flamingo" with a rotating front seat.
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8. One of the first bullet proof vests, 1917.
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9. The lay-down side car.
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10. The Viophonograph
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11. The Poker Face Mask
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12. Amphibious bicycle
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13. An icemask which promised to beat hangovers, 1947
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14. A vibrating rubber finger that massaged your gums
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15. A toilet mask that bleached skin to remove "imperfections"
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16. A swim mask from the 1920s
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17. This "beauty micrometer" let users know where makeup needed to be applied, 1937
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18. The Baby Dangler
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19. Scrumptious bacon that cooked in a toaster
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20. A massager made up of 480 artificial fingers
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21. The Pack Smoker, 1955
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22. The Egg Cuber for turning regular eggs into square eggs
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23. Clamps that helped to teach your kid to walk
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24. The Group Shower
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25. A box that blasted your head with ultraviolet rays in hopes of curing diseases
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26. The Dog Squeezer (a restraint), 1940
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27. Motorized roller skates, 1961
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28. A depressing hair growth hat that supposedly cured baldness
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29. A massive automatic hair dryer
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30. Tiny umbrella for smoking on a rain day
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31. Tanning vending machines, which provided people with a 30 second spray for ten cents, 1930
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32. Pipe for two, 1949
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33. Pain free paddle, 1950
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34. This shower hood was used to protect hair from getting wet, 1970
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35. A pram to protect babies from a toxic gas attack
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36. Inflatable life vests made from old tires
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37. The turkey blaster
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