Topic: Does anyone know what this contraption was called?
Anonymous A started this discussion 14 years ago #24,531
Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 2 minutes later[^] [v] #379,025
i think thats where your air conditioner is supposed to go...
doctor dreamworks md !jdTkvovFCQ joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 28 seconds later, 3 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #379,026
yes the person that made it
Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 15 minutes later, 18 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #379,027
A Baby CageBuilt in 1937 and distributed in London to members of the Chelsea Baby Club, the baby cage was meant for women with children but without a backyard, garden or terrace for them to play in or on. Suspended from the side of the building, the baby would have access to fresh air and sunlight through the cage's wire frame, and still have sufficient room to play with toys, according to a patent filed in 1922 by an Emma Read of Spokane, WA. The patent also notes that the cage could double as a place to sleep, with removable curtains working to prevent a draft.
"It is well known that a great many difficulties rise in raising and properly housing babies and small children in crowded cities, that is to say from the health viewpoint," the patent, which was finally granted on March 13, 1923, reads. "With these facts in view it is the purpose of the present invention to provide an article of manufacture for babies and young children, to be suspended upon the exterior of a building adjacent an open window, wherein the baby or young child may be placed."
The figures associated with the original patent show a cage similar to that seen in the pictures, but with a slanted, overlapping roof piece said to protect the babies locked inside from rain or snow. She doesn't spell it out, but Emma Read was a forward-thinking woman: If the patent had taken off and baby cages been installed all over big cities, the roof would have also served to protect the baby from anything that fell from the wire floor of the cage above.
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 43 seconds later, 19 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #379,028
im pretty sure thats a cage designed to execute babbys by randomly falling off
edit: @previous (D) posted at the same time as me
edit: @previous (D) posted at the same time as me
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Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 1 hour later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #379,057
Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 4 hours later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #379,107
I want one now, as an adult. I'll live in it with a sock puppet named frank.
All of my food and water will be brought in by helicopter.
If anyone wants to hangout, I'll have to search for time out of my busy sleeping schedule to talk to them via skype.
All of my food and water will be brought in by helicopter.
If anyone wants to hangout, I'll have to search for time out of my busy sleeping schedule to talk to them via skype.