Wacky old-fashioned inventions that need to be resurrected

Wacky Old-Fashioned Inventions That Need to Be Resurrected

An urban legend says that Charles H Duell, the commissioner of the US Patent Office, declared in 1899 that “everything that can be invented has been invented.” There is no evidence that he ever said such an idiotic thing, and the decades of the early 20th century were some of the most creative in human…