Bizarre & Outlandish Gadgets & Doohickeys: Used in Everyday Life-1851 to 1951

Hundreds of 19th— and 20th—century curiosities and contraptions are catalogued in this amusing assembly of more than 1,000 images. The days from the first Great Industrial Exhibition of 1851 to the post—WWII Festival of Britain saw rapid technological advancement throughout the United Kingdom and elsewhere, and countless numbers of products, from the ingenious to the idiotic, appeared on the market. Twenty—two sections divided into time— and money—saving devices, kitchen utensils, gadgets f...