Eccentric contraptions and amazing gadgets, gizmos and thingamabobs / Maurice Collins ; with Ian Kearey.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Newton Abbot : David and Charles ; 2004Distributor: Cincinnatti, Ohio : Distributed in North America by F and W Publications, 2004Description: 221 pages : color illustrations ; 16 x 17 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0715318225
  • 9780715318225
  • 0715318217
  • 9780715318218
Subject(s): Summary: 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 century 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.
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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 century 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.

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A picturebook with (mostly victorian) gadgets including a few timekeeping/clockwork devices, including alarm/teakettle(cover, pages11), kitchern timer (page 71), clockwork fire blower (p.27), office time stamp (p.95), money box clock also known as savings clock (p.129),

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