Unusual Photos.

BEE BEARD
We have no idea why this man would dare have so many bees around his face and in his hands, but we're certain he must have walked away with at least one or two stings. At least he was able to stand still long enough to snap this photo back in 1930, or we might not have believed it.

 

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You can’t really blame policemen for wanting to stay warm on the winter streets by any means possible. This heated jacket from 1932 got its power from “electric contacts in the street,” whatever that means.

I think it means lampposts.​

 

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It was thought that this scoop, mounted onto a vehicle in 1924 Paris, would reduce pedestrian casualties.

 

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Buoys used as bicycle wheels do not an amphibious vehicle make, but this guy tried with ‘Cyclomer‘ in Paris, 1932. Too bad there’s not a picture of him trying to actually use it in the water.

 

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In 1939, a Montreal inventor decided that plastic beaks would make an effective snowstorm mask.

 

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That looks safe.

 

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This stroller, equipped with an antenna and loudspeaker, was intended to help soothe babies in public places, but what happens when there’s a group of them all in the same room, listening to different stations?

 

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Never mind that catching a wave is the point of surfing. The motorized surfboard, pictured in 1948, was an ideal platform upon which to casually stand around in a suit, smoking a cigarette. On the water.

 

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What’s sad is that a gas-resistant stroller (England, 1938) was ever necessary in the first place.

 

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The shower hood: for those times when you want to preserve your hair and makeup in the shower, while looking as ridiculous as possible.

 

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Unlike most of these inventions, Hamblin glasses, which are fitted with mirrors to enable the wearer to read while laying flat without lifting their arms, still exist. And they’re still just as weird.

 

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The Isolator, by Hugo Gernsback: a terrifying hood with an attached oxygen tank, for when you want to be really, really isolated. “Outside noises being eliminated, the worker can concentrate with ease upon the subject at hand.”

 

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Swimsuits have come a long way since the days when they were long-sleeved wool monstrosities, but this wooden swimsuit invention, pictured in Washington State in 1929, wasn’t exactly a step forward.

 

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Nothing will make you feel better when you’re suffering from a hangover than a mask that looks like this.

 

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All this poor guy wanted was an iPod. The portable straw radio hat was made by an American inventor in 1931.

 

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This group of teenagers in 1925 Germany seem pretty proud of their invention, a swimming aid made of bicycle tires.

 

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Man, faints at the sight of his newborn triplets (1946)

 

Poor guy needs to fork out for 3 weddings.

 

FAMILY BIKING BUSINESS
A family bikes down the street in a 1939 four-person bicycle invention, which includes two levels and a sewing machine station.