Awesome Life gallery of ‘Dumb Inventions‘ from the 1950′s / 1960′s. I am particularly taken with the Cat Miaow Machine.

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It seems that today’s over zealous health & safety rules have stemmed creativity, but not for magician Pete Firman. Maybe he could do with a loan of the ‘smoke a whole packet at once’ invention above.

Posted by on October 2, 2009 in Uncategorized and tagged , , , , , , , , .

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  1. 20/20 Hindsight « Philly Design Blog says:
    October 3, 2009 at 1:31 pm

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  2. Links for 10.4.09: Eel slap, innovations past, Lyor Cohen’s life « the listenerd says:
    October 5, 2009 at 2:38 am

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  3. Mercedez says:
    November 5, 2009 at 6:59 pm

    These are really cool inventions!(:I wonder what else ya’ll can make?

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