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Weird & Wacky Inventions

A hair-cutting machine, a used gum receptacle, jumping shoes, and more of the strangest inventions ever! A hat that can tip itself. A suitcase that turns into a bathtub. A pair of protective eyeglasses for chickens. These are just three of the hundreds of unusual inventions that people have dreamed up over the last two centuries. Some, such as the mustache guard, made perfect sense when they first appeared. Others were considered just plain silly. Jim Murphy has compiled a collection of the weirdest and wackiest inventions and presented them in a quiz style that is challengi.

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  • "Includes drawings of unusual inventions submitted to the patent office with clues to aid the reader in guessing the purpose of each invention."
  • "Presents a series of drawings, with comments, of peculiar inventions, most of which were patented in the 19th century. Readers are asked to guess the purpose of each, and are given a set of answers from which to choose. Also discusses how two simple inventions developed into the bicycle and the vacuum cleaner."
  • "A hair-cutting machine, a used gum receptacle, jumping shoes, and more of the strangest inventions ever! A hat that can tip itself. A suitcase that turns into a bathtub. A pair of protective eyeglasses for chickens. These are just three of the hundreds of unusual inventions that people have dreamed up over the last two centuries. Some, such as the mustache guard, made perfect sense when they first appeared. Others were considered just plain silly. Jim Murphy has compiled a collection of the weirdest and wackiest inventions and presented them in a quiz style that is challengi."@en
  • "A hat that can tip itself. A suitcase that turns into a bathtub. These are just two of the hundreds of unusual inventions that people have dreamed up over the last two centuries. Murphy has compiled a collection of the weirdest and wackiest inventions and presented them in a quiz style that is challenging and fun. Illustrations."@en
  • "Presents a few of the weird and wonderful contraptions dreamed up by eager inventors over the last 200 years."
  • "Presents a few of the weird and wonderful contraptions dreamed up by eager inventors over the last 200 years."@en

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  • "Miscellanea"
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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Juvenile works"
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