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Eccentric Contraptions: An Amazing Gadgets, Gizmos and Thingamambobs: And Amazing Gadgets, Gizmos and Thingamambobs - Softcover

Collins, Maurice

 
9780715318218: Eccentric Contraptions: An Amazing Gadgets, Gizmos and Thingamambobs: And Amazing Gadgets, Gizmos and Thingamambobs
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0715318217 ISBN 13: 9780715318218
Verlag: David & Charles, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Mind-boggling technology from the days of yore. An amazing collection of fascinating and visually intriguing gadgets which will engage and amuse everyone. The incredible clockwork teasmade on the cover is just one of over 100 bizarre and ingenious gadgets in Maurice Collins? collection from the complexity of mechanical fruit peelers and a hand-pumped automatic shaver to the simplicity of the ?toe socks? of the 1920s which claimed to cut hosiery bills by 80%. If you thought burglar alarms were a modern invention, there is a Victorian brass clockwork one in the collection, if you?ve always found striking matches too taxing, someone in the 1920s invented an automated self-striking match box to save you the trouble. Fascinating and humorous Eccentric Contraptions will intrigue and amuse and is a testament to human ingenuity and resourcefulness.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

As well as being a passionate collector of gadgets, Maurice Collins also has extraordinary collections of posters and printed ephemera and gives regular talks about his collections. He is the co-founder of the charity Kith & Kids, which provides a range of services to families with disabled children and has been awarded an OBE for his services to disabled people. He has also been the chairman of Haringey Mencap and Mencap London Region. He lives in North London.

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Verlag
David & Charles
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0715318217
ISBN 13 
9780715318218
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
224
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