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Eccentric Contraptions: An Amazing Gadgets, Gizmos and Thingamambobs ISBN: 0715318217 ISBN13: 9780715318218 Eccentric Contraptions: An Amazing Gadgets, Gizmos and Thingamambobs By: Maurice Collins Publisher: David & Charles PLC Format: Paperback Our Price: 7.09 Discount: 29% RRP: 9.99

The incredible clockwork teasmade on the cover is just one of over 100 bizarre and ingenious gadgets in Maurice Collins' collection from the complexity of mechanical fruit peelers and a hand-pumped automatic shaver to the simplicity of the 'toe socks' of the 1920s which claimed to cut hosiery bills by 80 per cent. If you thought burglar alarms were a modern invention, there is a Victorian brass clockwork one in the collection, if you've always found striking matches too taxing, someone in the 1920s invented an automated self-striking match box to save you the trouble. Fascinating and humorous Eccentric Contraptions will intrigue and amuse, and is a testament to human ingenuity and resourcefulness.


Contents:

Preface
- 1

Domestic
- 2

The Kitchen
- 3

Business
- 4

Social
- 5

Medical
- 6

Transport
- 7

Miscellaneous
- Afterword


Brief Description:

A small-sized visual collection of more than one hundred unusual innovations from the author's personal collection features such gadgets as a mechanical fruit peeler, a hand-pumped automatic shaver, and 1920s toe socks.

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