Method of Preserving the Dead: Encasing the Corpse in Glass!

By Alex in Everything Else, Paranormal, Pictures on Aug 8, 2007 at 8:41 pm

In 1903, an inventor named Joseph Karwowski was awarded one of the strangest patents (yes, there’re a lot of them) I’ve ever seen: Method of Preserving the Dead by encasing the body in glass!

Link [Google Patent] – via the Curiosities of Glassmaking at The Corning Museum of Glass


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