inventions

40 photos tagged inventions, from 7 members of Flickr Commons.

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Auto met koeienvanger voor voetgangers / Car with shovel for pedestrians

  • Randall Wade (Rand) Grant said:
    Damn, and that got shut down?! I keep thinking we could use these now a days.
  • pixelmaik said:
    Fantastic shot
  • Bryan Yates said:
    Have these people never heard of 'elf and Safety!
  • Ulterior Motive Vax - Just Say NO! said:
    Car with COWCATCHER for pedestrians
  • incredible face said:
    its a taxicab I can see the taximeter

Krant per fax / Faxed newspaper

  • edgertor said:
    this technology was being developed at Bell Labs around this time...they probably worked with WOR in Newark, with the chief engineer Jack Poppele, to make this possible.

Apparaat maakt licht hoorbaar voor blinden / Blind man hearing light

  • pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Disability History, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
  • pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:
    The man is holding an "Exploring Optophone," invented by physicist E. E. Fournier d'Albe (1868-1933) and first exhibited in 1912 at the Optical Convention, South Kensington. It used a selenium detector to control a sound output. D'Albe went on to invent a "Reading Optophone," which attempted to convert text into sound. See Michael Capp and Phil Picton, "The Optophone: An Electronic Blind Aid," Engineering Science and Education Journal (June 2000): 137-143.