Unusual Photos.

Piano specially designed for people who are confined to bed.​

 

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This contraption is a sort of TomTom, early tripmaster. Works using rolling key map. The map passes the screen in a tempo that depends on the speed of the car.

 

Folding bridge for emergencies, invented by L. Deth and can easily be transported on a handcart.​

 

Rainbow! Is this you?

 

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The Boot Lever A new book called Inventions That Didn’t Change the World is a compilation of 19th century design ideas that were submitted to the U.K.'s Design Registry, but then never saw the light of day. This lever was designed for pulling on and off boots.

 

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__The Garrote-Proof Collar __ Strangulation was a far more common form of murder at the time. Thus, this "design for an anti-garotting cravat," which could be worn underneath a collar.

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The Mechanical Bookmark The designs say a lot about the Victorian times. This idea for a "spring bible and prayer case" replaces the ribbon often used as a bookmark for Bibles.

 

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Parasol Spectacles Why not combine your parasol and eyeglasses into one device? Three monocle-like pieces of glass are inserted into the fabric of this "lunette parasol."

 

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Adjustable Bosom The "design for a corset with expansible busts" was a Victorian era push-up bra: india rubber or air proof bags could have been blown up to enhance the wearer's bust line.

 

A man guards his family from the cannibals during the Madras famine of 1877 at the time of British Raj, India

Many of these famines in India were artificially caused by British by forcing them to grow nonedible crops or forcing them to export the grown foods

 

That is heart wrenching. Makes me tearful.

 

I hate what my own country has done.

 

I think we need shocking to learn what is right.

 

Yes.

 

And that is the ugly legacy of predatory capitalism…not just by the UK, but most of the industrialized nations

 

I know it is ugly history. I think most members on HIP are good people.

 

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