An inventor designed an alarm bed that tipped sleepers onto the floor when it was time to get up.Gentlemen once used special guards to keep their mustaches dry while drinking.A 1920s invention let city parents hang their babies outside the window in a wire cage for fresh air.This 1890s device promised to press permanent dimples into your cheeks.Several inventors have patented hats with umbrellas attached for hands-free rain protection.A patented contraption let you kick yourself in the backside, just in case you needed it.These 1800s coffins came with bells or air tubes in case someone was buried alive by mistake.Tiny glasses were patented to protect chickens’ eyes from other pecking chickens.This device kept long-eared dogs from dipping their ears into their food bowls.This 1960s patent imagined using centrifugal force to help deliver babies.Someone patented the method of making a cat chase a dot of light.This 1890s hat politely tipped itself so gentlemen didn’t have to lift a finger.
