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Bizarre Victorian Inventions - PDF Scrapbook / Slideshow
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The hydrogen balloon – went up, but often in flames!
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The (not-quite) automatic sculpting machine
Tricycle-mounted Maxim gun – sure to terrify the enemy!
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The pneumatic document tube – receiving end!
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Secret technical details of the pneumatic tubes
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The stair-elevator, way before its time!
Propellor-driven dirigible
Cross-section of a dirigible’s cabin
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Friends say “adieu” to the intrepid aviator
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Alarm signal selector – 11 choices of panic!
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The Chicago alarm system saves another life!
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The French version…
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The sciséophone, sonic quality control for high explosive shells!
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Automated wine tasting on the rue Montmartre, Paris
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Walking, talking dolls!
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English experimental “machine guns”, in the Indies
Parisian road sweeper
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Battery-powered tricycle (prototype of the legendary Sinclair C5?)
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Parenty’s patent smoking machine (before the invention of the beagle)
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Not since the days of Daedalus had the skies seen such flying machines!
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Early typewriters
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Pneumatic clocks in Paris, harnessing the winds of time!
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The principles explained…
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Air-powered train
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The multi-purpose cane, catering for all the gentlemanly pastimes!
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The melograph – early musical recording device
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Melographic melody
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The melotrope playback system
Ingenious details of the melograph
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Electrically illuminated jewelry
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Not quite the Charge of the Light Brigade – British bicycle troops
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A choice of writing devices for the blind
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Torpedo systems for land and sea!
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Experimental transport
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The amphibious tricycle
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Writing stabiliser for train passengers
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The aeolien harp
The cigarette-holder / camera
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The diplograph – early document duplicator
The bigraph, a similar idea…
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Medium’s table, and electric insects!
The electric dirigible sets out on a secret military mission
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Apple peeler
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Spherical velocipede – all the fun of the fair!
Family velocipede – father puts his foot down
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Early phonographic microphones
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Automated teller – a century before its time
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Steam lawn-mower – the cutting edge of technology
Telephonic concert – hifi fo fum
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The theatrophone – high drama, without the need to go to the theater!
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Pre-electric light buoy
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The pocket revolver – handy in tight corners!
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Not to be outdone, a Russian military rail inspector
Herrington’s writing machine
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Ericsson’s calorific engine – solar energy in 1883!
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Automated perfume distributor – only in France…?
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Slot-machine technology
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Eccentric cycles
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The Wimshurt machine – crackle and pop goes the physicist
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The pocket machine gun – mind your fingers!
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The telautograph – early facsimiles
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Edison’s electic pen – turbo-powered inky fingers
Early document duplicating system
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The photo rifle – smile, you’re in the cross-hairs!
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Drill for the first Channel Tunnel
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The waltzing cycle – giddy up!
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A photo panoramic spectacle
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The Colson military telephone – eliminates battlefield background noise!
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The photogenic revolver – just a flash in the pan?
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Illuminating the ocean floor
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The velograph – another crackpot writing devices
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Closer, but, not that close…
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Marine salvage system
No more need to lick envelopes or stamps…
The aquatic velocipe…
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Velocipedic antics
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Photo-trike for tourists – snap and go!
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Pneumatic plumbing system
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The pyrophone, or “fire/explosion organ” – the wrath of God?
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Automatic page-turner for musical scores
Aquarium frames (recently making a comeback)
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The New York “Time Ball” – global standard time?
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Mechanical horse brush
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A bicycle made for two
The portable boat
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Pénaud’s mechanical bird
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Propellor-driven fly – but why?
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The photophone – a prototype of fiber-optics?
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Early sushi boat system
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Another amphibious vehicle
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Aquatic trike
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Giant trike
Giant and dwarf bikes
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Various trikes…
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Mini-dirigible
Russian mini-sub
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Ladies’ bicyle protectors
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The Saint-Malo rolling bridge
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Locomobile, with folding funnel (for low bridges)
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The bedroom bicycle
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