Patently silly

John Martz | December 19th, 2005

All you readers who were planning on inventing the world’s first carrot-house might as well stop what you’re doing. The Patent House illustrates that it’s already been patented — along with dozens of other unusual examples of industrial design from the early half of the 20th century. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to start planning my new Asparagus Car.

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  • This is an excellent site. I would guess this is a pretty lost art. And I agree to on the topography. It's really amazing.
  • H. A. Weaselton
    The site was impressive.
    My eye was caught by the beautiful typography. Nearly all of the inventors created his own font to write Fig. 1 and then his name. It is interesting to see how it came together when it was primarily done by hand.
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