What is It? Game 48

1. Nbob
   December 13th, 2007 at 4:23 am

   It's a divining rod for witching water

2. James
   December 13th, 2007 at 5:09 am

   Sand fuse/jacob's ladder style device that arcs electricity and will fuse the sand into glass (breaking the connection inside the glass vial within the sand) when too much current is reached.

3. nick
   December 13th, 2007 at 7:01 am

   its for measureing spacific gravity in some kind of liquid.

4. Craig Clayton
   December 13th, 2007 at 7:06 am

   I believe it is a lighting arrestor for lighting strikes to high voltage power lines.

5. Adam
   December 13th, 2007 at 7:51 am

   It's an extra large tuning fork

6. Ali S.
   December 13th, 2007 at 8:15 am

   I'm throwing a wild guess that this has to do something with magnetism.

7. KIT CLOUD
   December 13th, 2007 at 8:58 am

   Its obviously some kind of projectile developed by Reed Richards and Tony Stark to take down the Hulk. It must be so dangerous that you have to use the tongs to handle it safely. What could possibly go wrong?

8. Jenni
   December 13th, 2007 at 9:57 am

   It is a vibrational/psychic tuning thing. You give the long fork thing a whack with the short thing and the fork vibrates. Then you move it around a person, like through their aura and such. And then they are all better!

9. Joe H
   December 13th, 2007 at 11:07 am

   It's a feeder for a small pet (like a gerbil or hamster). The tweezer part is a clip to attach to the top of a cage and the other part is where you put the food/water.

10. rhea_sun
    December 13th, 2007 at 11:36 am

    a dowser

11. Mossel
    December 13th, 2007 at 1:05 pm

    The small part is inserted into the brain via ear or nose with a hammer, then the large part is attached.
    As the fluids enter the compartment with the sand, the prongs will fibrate and indicate if the patient was telling the truth or not.
    Mainly used on small children.

12. Rosi
    December 13th, 2007 at 1:07 pm

    I think that the smaller object is a wood and metal slide whistle (possibly from the Baroque period) and the large tweezer like object is a primitive tuning fork, possibly in the key of B sharp(tuning to a whole note higher than ours, naturally). I believe J.S.Bach used one in his Brandenburg concerto no. 7.

13. david t
    December 13th, 2007 at 6:10 pm

    it's a type of corkscrew without a screw.

14. PJ in SF
    December 13th, 2007 at 6:17 pm

    It's a fuse that needs to be placed in a difficult-to-reach location in an electronic device. The "tweezers" are to help with the fuse's placement.

15. Alasdair
    December 13th, 2007 at 9:50 pm

    Going out on a whim here, and it might sound completely radical, but is it just a pair of tweezers and a tube of sand-like-stuff?

16. wytchhazel
    December 16th, 2007 at 2:36 pm

    Its a laying tool used in loom weaving. It is meant to operate like a long tweezers, one uses it to reverse thread/pull an end piece. Often used in blanket and rug weaving. The opposite side is used not unlike an awl.

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