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Patently Absurd Ridiculous Devices Invented - C Cooper

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Item number:200382093632
Item location:Port Macquarie NSW, Australia
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Format: HardcoverPublication Year: --
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 --Language: English
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The essential reference for desk or workstation

The Penguin Working Words

An Australian Guide to Modern English Usage

 

 

There are a few groundbreaking patents that the world is eternally grateful for and lots that are useful and practical, but this book does not include any of those. What it does include are patents of the wackiest, weirdest inventions that never made it into mass production.
 
Patently Absurd shows designs of eccentric inventions from all over the world, including the U.S.A., Europe, and Japan. Take the Dust Cover for Dog that zips up your unwilling pet into a suit guaranteed to make it want to leave home and find another owner. Or the Amphibious Bicycle for those riders who feel the uncontrollable desire to plunge into the nearest lake and cycle across it to reach dry land again.
 
The United Kingdom claims to have the longest continuous record of granting patents. The earliest known patent was granted by King Henry VI in 1449 to John of Utynam, who had his own method of making stained glass. The United States passed its first patent law in 1790, and in 1836 founded the US Patent Office - now the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
 
The patents included in this book reach as far back in time as the early nineteenth century right through to the present day, showing the range and scope of unusual designs thought worthy of patenting throughout history.
 
Atypical of most patents, the inventions included here are guaranteed to make you laugh, though unlikely to make you want to own one of your own.
 
 
Hardcover book with jacket measures approx 210mm x 160mm wide

 

Printed 2004

 

Pages 96

 

 

The book is in good used condition

"Light cover wear; no writing inside the cover pages; "

 

 

 


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