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Bizarre Victorian Inventions PDF Scrapbook / Slideshow

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Bizarre Victorian Inventions

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The hydrogen balloon went up, but often in flames!

The (not-quite) automatic sculpting machine

Tricycle-mounted Maxim gun sure to terrify the enemy! 4

The pneumatic document tube receiving end!

Secret technical details of the pneumatic tubes

Bizarre Victorian Inventions The stair-elevator, way before its time!

Propellor-driven dirigible

Cross-section of a dirigibles cabin 8

Friends say adieu to the intrepid aviator

Alarm signal selector 11 choices of panic!

The Chicago alarm system saves another life!

The French version

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The scisophone, sonic quality control for high explosive shells!

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Automated wine tasting on the rue Montmartre, Paris

Walking, talking dolls! 17

English experimental machine guns, in the Indies

Parisian road sweeper

Battery-powered tricycle (prototype of the legendary Sinclair C5?)

Parentys patent smoking machine (before the invention of the beagle) 21

Not since the days of Daedalus had the skies seen such flying machines!

Early typewriters

Pneumatic clocks in Paris, harnessing the winds of time!

The principles explained 26

Air-powered train 27

The multi-purpose cane, catering for all the gentlemanly pastimes!

The melograph early musical recording device

Melographic melody

The melotrope playback system

Ingenious details of the melograph

Electrically illuminated jewelry

Not quite the Charge of the Light Brigade British bicycle troops

A choice of writing devices for the blind

Torpedo systems for land and sea! 35

Experimental transport 36

The amphibious tricycle

Writing stabiliser for train passengers

The aeolien harp

The cigarette-holder / camera 39

The diplograph early document duplicator

The bigraph, a similar idea

Mediums table, and electric insects!

The electric dirigible sets out on a secret military mission 41

Apple peeler

Spherical velocipede all the fun of the fair!

Family velocipede father puts his foot down 43

Early phonographic microphones

Automated teller a century before its time

Steam lawn-mower the cutting edge of technology

Telephonic concert hifi fo fum

The theatrophone high drama, without the need to go to the theater! 47

Pre-electric light buoy

The pocket revolver handy in tight corners!

Not to be outdone, a Russian military rail inspector

Herringtons writing machine

Ericssons calorific engine solar energy in 1883!

Automated perfume distributor only in France?

Slot-machine technology

Eccentric cycles

The Wimshurt machine crackle and pop goes the physicist

The pocket machine gun mind your fingers!

The telautograph early facsimiles

Edisons electic pen turbo-powered inky fingers

Early document duplicating system

The photo rifle smile, youre in the cross-hairs!

Drill for the first Channel Tunnel 62

The waltzing cycle giddy up!

A photo panoramic spectacle

The Colson military telephone eliminates battlefield background noise!

The photogenic revolver just a flash in the pan?

Illuminating the ocean floor 67

The velograph another crackpot writing devices

Bizarre Victorian Inventions Closer, but, not that close

Bizarre Victorian Inventions Marine salvage system

No more need to lick envelopes or stamps

The aquatic velocipe

Velocipedic antics

Photo-trike for tourists snap and go!

Pneumatic plumbing system

The pyrophone, or fire/explosion organ the wrath of God?

Automatic page-turner for musical scores

Aquarium frames (recently making a comeback)

The New York Time Ball global standard time?

Mechanical horse brush

A bicycle made for two

The portable

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