1910s
Letters From a Living Dead Man
Check out the result of Elsa Barker's "automatic writing" and learn all about the afterlife.Elsa Barker's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 08, 2024 -
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Category: Death, Hoaxes and Imposters and Imitators, Supernatural, Occult, Paranormal, 1910s
Bipartite Insect-Excluding Airlock
This seems like a lot of work just to keep a few flies out of your house. And do insects really dislike entering darkened rooms?Full patent.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jun 24, 2024 -
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Category: Domestic, Insects and Spiders, Patents, 1910s
Headache Hanger
Full patent here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed May 15, 2024 -
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Category: Inventions, Patents, Medicine, 1910s, Head
Voo Doo Magazine
Would you expect the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to feature an extant humor magazine, whose first issue was published in 1919? Well, it's a fact.You can read scores of issues here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 19, 2024 -
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Category: Humor, Magazines, 1910s, Universities, Colleges, Private Schools and Academia
Animated Putty
Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 13, 2024 -
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Category: Stop-motion Animation, 1910s
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 54
The creator's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Feb 23, 2024 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, 1910s
The Fat Roller
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Feb 04, 2024 -
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Category: Body Modifications, Patent Medicines, Nostrums and Snake Oil, 1910s
The Electric Hairbrush and Comb of Hugo Gernsback
One of the fathers of modern science fiction once came up with this.Tip o' the hat to Steve Davidson, current proprietor of Amazing Stories.
Full patent here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 27, 2023 -
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Category: Magazines, Patents, Science Fiction, 1910s, Hair and Hairstyling
Somnambulist Bathing
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 29, 2023 -
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Category: Hygiene, Sleep and Dreams, Danger, Risk, and Peril, 1910s
What a Life! An Autobiography
You might enjoy this very silly book.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 18, 2023 -
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Category: Art, Surrealism, Humor, Books, 1910s
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