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| Hollywood inventor Joe Gilpin riding his motorized surfboard. (Peter Stackpole/Time and Life Pictures/Getty Images/LIFE.com) Visit LIFE: Your World in Pictures |
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| The 20th century saw many astounding technological innovations. The automobile revolutionized the way people live and work, the internet changed the way people think about information, and the U.S. put a man on the moon. But some technological advances that came in the earlier part of the 20th centry weren't exactly meant for the history books. Because they were stupid. Take, for example, this M3 sub-machine gun with a curved barrel for shooting around corners. It's the perfect gun for the "shoot first, look where you're shooting later" kind of guy. (Keystone/Getty Images/LIFE.com) Visit LIFE: Your World in Pictures |
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| Inventor John H T Rinfret demonstrates his anti-bandit bag. To foil thieves the chain is pulled and the bottom of the case falls out so the contents are scattered over the floor. That'll stop those thieves from getting at the contents of your bag! No, wait. It won't. (Fred Mott/Getty Images/LIFE.com) Visit LIFE: Your World in Pictures |
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| American science fiction writer and founder of the Church of Scientology L. Ron Hubbard uses his Hubbard Electrometer to determine whether tomatoes experience pain, 1968. His work led him to the conclusion that tomatoes "scream when sliced." (Evening Standard/Getty Images/LIFE.com) Visit LIFE: Your World in Pictures |
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| A nanny supervising a baby suspended in a wire cage attached to the outside of a high tenement block window. The cages were distributed to members of the Chelsea Baby Club in London who have no gardens, or qualms about putting a child in a box dangling over a busy street. (Reg Speller/Getty Images/LIFE.com) Visit LIFE: Your World in Pictures |
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| Hollywood inventor Joe Gilpin riding his motorized surfboard. (Peter Stackpole/Time and Life Pictures/Getty Images/LIFE.com) Visit LIFE: Your World in Pictures |
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| President of Zeus Corp., Robert L. Stern, smoking a cigarette from his self-designed rainy day cigarette holder. (YALE JOEL/LIFE.com) Visit LIFE: Your World in Pictures |
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| Inventor Hugo Gernsback with his T.V. Glasses. (Alfred Eisenstaedt/Time and Life Pictures/Getty Images/LIFE.com) Visit LIFE: Your World in Pictures |
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