Historic gadget flops

Posted by T3 Magazine on Mon 5 Oct 2009

They don't make 'em like this anymore. With very good reason...

We’re not saying that no daft tech is created nowadays – just look at wrist exercisers and aromatherapy foot spas – but it does seem that the golden age of inventive yet mad gadgetry went west with the British empire and tennis players in long trousers.

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Just look at these failed inventions of yore and weep for the passing of an era when anything, no matter how foolhardy, futile or lifeendangering, was possible...

Featuring as black marks on the long and illustrious path to technological innovation, launch the gallery to see our historic gadget flops

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User Comments

By glynn

6|10|2009 20:06

The correct name for these bikes is "ordinary", as opposed to the "safety cycle" which is what we recognise today (penny farthing wasn't coined until much later).
They started off with smaller wheels - they only grew to achieve bigger gear ratios to go faster!

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