{"id":32576,"date":"2011-03-13T15:43:08","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T15:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/crazy-futures-from-the-past-tank-operated-by-phonograph-a-bike-for-the-whole-family-etc-discoblog\/"},"modified":"2011-03-13T15:43:08","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T15:43:08","slug":"crazy-futures-from-the-past-tank-operated-by-phonograph-a-bike-for-the-whole-family-etc-discoblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/crazy-futures-from-the-past-tank-operated-by-phonograph-a-bike-for-the-whole-family-etc-discoblog.php","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Futures From the Past: Tank Operated by Phonograph, a Bike for the Whole Family, Etc | Discoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>All inventors have their ups and downs.<\/p>

Thomas Edison wanted to make pianos out of cement and Henry Ford tried to invent a nuclear car. Popular Science<\/em> recently went through their 138 years of archives to find the insanest inventions on it<\/a>s pages, and now they grace us in gallery form on their website.<\/p>

For every airplane, computer or chemical weapon appearing in our archives, there are a ton of other inventions that are, to put it bluntly, rather pointless. At best, they’re well-intentioned but a little impractical. Let’s take a look, shall we?<\/p>

Don’t miss the magic of the combo piano-vacuum<\/a>, because really, everyone likes a mash-up and the only way to improve a vacuum is to make it stationary. But I guess you could always use it to clean the piano itself.<\/p>

Some of the others are more reasonable, like a dog-wheel powered bike (don’t say you haven’t thought about it), which PopSci <\/em>explains in the gallery<\/a>:<\/p>

The so-called “Poochmobile,” invented by eighty year-old dog trainer Z. Wiggs, applied the squirrel cage principle to its primary ...<\/p>

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