Combination Piano-Vacuum Cleaner (July 1917)
Hail Cannons (October 1919)
Growing Mushrooms with Electricity (April 1923)
Beast-Drawn Carriages (November 1924)
Ingenious Farm Gadgets (September 1925)
Airship Hospital (July 1930)
Automated Grocery Store (October 1933)
War Tank Run by Phonograph (November 1934)
Water Skiing Just Got Easier (October 1937)
Sewing Machine Bicycle (October 1939)
Poochmobile (November 1939)
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PopSci’s Most Impractical Inventions curated by Denise Ngo for Popular Science
Thank you to John Pollock
May I submit to you:
http://www.fleethorse.com
Impracticality is an idea that’s here to stay!
I do like the principal theory of the hospital airship, there is a firm science behind sunlight / uv rays and the treatment of staphylococcus aureus (which is difficult to treat with anti-bacterial treatments). The phonograph tank reminds me of a WWI technique used by Australian soldiers, where they would rig a machine gun in a nest with an automatic trigger system involving boot laces and two cans (one with sand and a hole in, and one empty attached to the string)