Early air-conditioning....

In 1890, the McLeod American Pneumatic Company proposed a means of centrally heating a building - by means of a system of pipes that would collect heated air from a central furnace, & thereby fill the radiators.

In summer, cool air would be created by filling the furnace with cold water...

Love the idea of having a handy cooling funnel on the wall for whenever you need ....

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There was the 'grape-cure' on the River Rhein, the 'beer-cure' in Munich, & then there was Aerotherapy in Milan, developed by Dr Carlo Forlianini in the 1890s - where invalids could sit in a comfortably furnished room (see image 2) & inhale chemically purified air, blown into the room under steam power.

Velvet cushions & golf tassels in Milan, or do it yourself with a teapot, garden hose, & the ol' bellows. Which would you choose?

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The Punch magazine (1886):

If they knew what I wear when I walk in the street,
It should be quite a terror to people I meet;
They would fly when they saw me, and ne’er stop to chat,
For I carry a camera up in my hat.

A Herr Luders, of Görlitz, has patented this,
And I think the idea is by no means a miss;
With a hole in my hat for the lens to peep through,
And a dry plate behind, I take portrait or view.

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The latest in aerodynamics - a natural flying machine, 1865, from an inventor in Baltimore, who suggests special jackets for brown eagles, which are attached to a circular framework, containing at its centre a metal basket. The passenger, seated in the metal basket, would control the birds' flight through a series of tubes and cords.

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#Invention of the week.
A selection of bustles from the painstaking brush of Jacques Tissot.

Who would have thought that a bustle could contain so much potential? (see image 4).
The Scientific American in 1887 suggested 'a device calculated to make it convenient for the wearer frequently to rest from the fatigue of long-standing and walking. '

We also think the addition of castor wheels would be handy, for easy depature...
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