http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTahrYXCChI

the 1930s, the golden age before the nanny state.

Clearly also before Health and Safety became an issue.

Impressive? Most definately, Sensible.... not at all!

also... some of these investions... dear god... what were they thinking!

I wish airplanes would have turned out looking like big birds of prey.

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Those poor fellas worked so hard too. heheh Some of this looks older than 30s

Hahahahaha that was awesome!

Most of these inventions seemed to involve spectacular public suicide as a contingency plan.

ETA _ Holy shit! Somebody invented Wile E. Coyote's batsuit. Awesome.

Lets have a *wtf for some of those

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full movie is here:
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=gizmo%20movie%20old%20inventions&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS243US244&um=1&sa=N&tab=wv#

I watched this in science class as a kid and loved it. Glad to see it made it to the sift.

Ok, Bernoulli died in the 1780s, so the concept of aerodynamic lift was clearly understood, so why all the flapping wings?

I had to pause it right after the first crash because I was laughing so hard it hurt. omg the way he just gets flattened! LOL ugh and the great crash sound too.
"Through a system of leverage advantage" I will now face plant into the ground for your amusement.

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Peoples sure was dumb! Hyuk, hyuk!

>> ^Sketch:
Peoples sure was dumb! Hyuk, hyuk!


It's these amazingly intrepid European Americans, through their bold engineering and imagination, who built the country that became the envy of the world.

The planet owes a great debt to gentlemen and ladies such as these who worked hard and devoted so much to their nation.

Okay, you understand that "Peoples sure was dumb! Hyuk, hyuk!" was parody right? I mean seriously. Do you think I actually speak like that in real life? I mean I know burdturgler doesn't like me for religious purposes, which is fine, I'll take his downvotes, but come on! Relax people. It's just a comment post.

>> ^Sketch:
Okay, you understand that "Peoples sure was dumb! Hyuk, hyuk!" was parody right? I mean seriously. Do you think I actually speak like that in real life? I mean I know burdturgler doesn't like me for religious purposes, which is fine, I'll take his downvotes, but come on! Relax people. It's just a comment post.


Sorry if my comment was misconstrued, Sketch. It's just that your comment was the last one I read and after being so inspired by the admiration I have for these inventors I didn't think they deserve jest.

(I evened up your comment btw!)

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