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Patently silly

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.

  • http://www.fatuo.com/2005/12/19/patent-room/ El fatuo diario gráfico. » Patent Room

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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • http://www.richardcreative.com/ Richard

    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.

  • http://www.richardcreative.com Richard

    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.