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Before the gasoline engine was perfected for cars (1952) they ran on windup, with multiple rubber bands. This was very embarrassing for most people, and was a constant source of amusement for the steam car crowd. So the myth that gasoline engines worked was started and cars didn't need winding. However, they did need winding but people did it in their garage where other people could not see them. Your grandfather probably carried the secret to his grave, as did most of his generation.

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Its an insidious device to trap unicorns, used by the CIA on islands in the Irish sea which mysteriously disappeared from any drawn map. After the horned horses were hunted into extinction in 1958, these were warehoused in New Jersey, in the vain hope a new hunting ground could be located. Hence, our military incursions into the mideast, where rumor holds that the one-horned beasts have been seen.

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This was invented by Gerard D. Kobblestammer as a two handed Fish Scaler, but no one wanted it because it was different from the one handed fish scalers in use at the time. So he sold it as a scalp massager and told everyone as an aside that it actually works better as a fish scaler, and made a tidy fortune. Unfortunately, he married a his cleaning woman, who was not as tidy, contracted syphillus and died penniless and insane. An intelligent man is not necessarily a wise man.

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This is a clock unwinder. In Victorian time it was feared that a clock left wound over the new year eve would cause infertility. The first thing that Victorian men would do on the New Years day was get out of bed to wind and set the clock. THe would then go back to bed and test for infertility. As a result of this pratice the clock unwinder was considered a very risque' item great care was taken to keep it stored descreetly. You can still find them in secret cubbyholes under staircases in older homes, covered with dust, biding their time.

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This device is what they used to take pap smears in the 1940's. It's name is forgotten, as doctors and patients simply called it: 'that thing.'

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Its the first version of the modern fingernail clipper. It worked but needed lots of adjustments, but it cut all your fingernails at once. The toenail clipper design never worked well though.

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Medevel Gynecological brace. The jar its resting on held a tallow candle.

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These are TanzenKopfeldingen, or Bavarian Dancing weights. Each spring the dancers would gather on the thinning ice of the Titsensee and perform their dance, repeatedly while carrying heavier and heavier weights. When the first one broke through the ice, sinking to the bottom while clutching the weight, the dance ended.

I don't think they do it anymore, because of Hitler or something.

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Nonsparking Ziffle interrupt key for clockwork destructo robots. As you have that, and it is not attached to a robot, well somewhere there's going to be trouble.

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After the civil war, the surplus of cannons and cannon balls led to the invention of the game 'Artillery Golf.' THat is one of the 'holes.' The game was discontinued when someone didn't yell 'Fore' load enough.

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Its a stock guage marker. However, back when I was busting gangs in the 30's I was in charge of 'interveiwing' suspects. If they began to get difficult, I'd take that out of my pocket and set it on the table. Then I'd tell my partner to hold his arms while I got his pants down. In a minute they'd be singing like a bird.

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