This was a dampening system for a prometheus drive GM was working on. If the two articles were somehow ever seperated, the drive would start spinning out of control and lose all stability.
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Proof of concept for the first interactive "Tom-Tom" GPS guided electric car.You moved the switch back and forth to steer. Since this was the 1956 teenager's model, it also told you to get a haircut and get a job.
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Most of you all are close but not quite there- this was a device for rotating an antenna but since this was the canadian version, the antenna was in a fixed position on the roof and the device rotated the whole house instead.
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a Ninja safety spike- these were thrown down and unlike other spikes that would break the skin if you stepped on them, these would just hurt like the dickens.
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It was holding the clasp on the prometheus drive case but fell off
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Mid-evil prince albert piercing?
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This was a tool to adjust the harmonic rotary flangeometer on the prometheus drive GM had developed (but which has since mysteriously disappeared).
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This was developed by NASA to show astronauts the effects of gravity and certifugal forces by putting this on the end of their finger and twirling around that if they did indeed orbit earth that they would not fall to the floor going around the earth's north pole or rising to the ceiling going around the south pole
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Since bowling balls only grow on trees in western Australia, they can be difficult to pick up since there are no fingerholes, ( all the fingerhole worms died out in the last ice age)this tool would be attached to a combine and used to pick them up for harvest.This also screened out the small,(think pluto)undesirable bowling balls. Little known fact, they quit the practice of "shaking" the trees with a mechanical shaker due to workman's comp claims.
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Scientists eager to disprove the "big bang theory" started a quest to develop the "Giant pinball machine theory" instead and went about it by developing a smaller scale model that used bowling ball sized planets. What you don't see in the picture is the giant spring plunger God would have pulled out on to "launch" the planets into space. You know what happened to pluto.
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This was made for scientists to easily carry around models of planets for display/presentation purposes. Since little pluto kept falling out, they voted it out of the catagory of "planets"."Pocket planet" was the first trendy name chosen for it but was changed later in fear of retaliation for the real reason for the name change.
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Carrying case for the Jolly Green Giant's tongue piercing.
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This was custom made for a potato gun with silencer.
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Albert Einstein's display case for his "black holes do exist" model.
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Victorian era traveling corset salesman's sample case
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