April 18, 2017
This is “Our Past Is Present” from the Geary County
Historical Society.
If you
haven’t visited our new display “A Call To Arms” as a part of our theme “The
Year of the Soldier" at our Museum, please take a few minutes or few hours
between the hours of 1 and 4 PM Tuesday through Sunday to see the gallery. It's full
of letters, uniforms, weapons, pictures and medals from the Civil War up to
today. Come by and see this main display
on the second floor in our Auditorium.
And… bring a friend. Admission is
free. Now for today’s story…
In April of
1958, the “Topeka Capital Journal” newspaper reported that people who install
television and other new-fangled gadgets in their cars have nothing on the
inventors of earlier years. However,
some of these inventions, might have us asking: Why would someone want to use
these inventions? For example: The
article revealed that during the 1890’s a Chicago man devised a mechanized
horse that would run along on wheels in front of a car. It seems horses pulling
other vehicles would often bolt when they saw a horseless carriage and the
inventor was out to fool them.
Another inventor designed an automobile
washing machine, which was simply a tank with a lid. The tank was filled with warm water, soap and
dirty laundry and while riding over bumpy roads the family’s clothes got
washed.
And finally…
there was a Texan who eliminated the need for eyeglasses by having his whole
windshield ground to match his specific prescription.
These items
may have made good sense to their inventors, but again... why and who besides
the inventors ever used them?
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