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A Great Invention

On this date in 1896: Phineas Hiddlemeyer creates the monocle contact lense.

Lumiere brothers caricature

Henry Fox Talbot

"How about this? We carpet the road and use the resultant static electricity to power our electric cars."

'It's Jones Sir! He's showing of his ball point pen again!'

'I can't help thinking there's something else we can do with this.'

Hague Convention Defied! Failure of the new Tommy-Scalder.

'Well, son... I've made my first million by selling my unpaid bills to the paper-recycling guy!'

'Just where did you get this satellite tracking system, anyway?'

'Great invention, Rex! What are you going to call it?'

'I heard you may be looking for an assistant in cell growth!'

STRIP Hambone: Zebra computer repairman

'Its motor is powered by a bucket of electric eels.'

Ice fisherman using plunger to catch fish

'Derek knew that someone, somewhere must have designed a car with a shopping basket.'

'Eventually I plan to replace it with an artificial limb.'

'It'll revolutionize I. Q. testing! -- I've invented the mental dipstick!'

'...His flow-thru hull theory sounds like it's work...But then somethin' unfahseen always gets in the way...'

Soup on a stick

The Toilet Bike.

"Eric is fitting GPS tracking tags to his socks in a bid to learn more about their migratory habits."

Recycling

'I've created a new bug electrocuter, but the down side is it takes a lot of time to say their little insect heads.'

'How do you like this one?...Inflatable dart board.'

"These new cars have so many sensors, they're ticklish."

"If I could go back and change things, I would, but they shutdown my lab and seized my time machine."

Benjamin Franklin

'Dust-mop-baby-jumper.'

Self-Propelled Skating Gadget

'I've invented food, and I've invented shelter -- two out of three isn't so bad!'

The primitive age: 'Do you know that the 'i stone2' was released?'

'Ideas pre-Edison' and 'Ideas post-Edison'