Forgotten Inventions
Machines and products that history quietly shelved: some brilliant, some baffling, all fascinating.
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Edison's Concrete Houses You Could Pour Like Cake
Thomas Edison wanted to pour an entire house from concrete in one go.
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The 1930s Baby Cage For City Apartments
In the 1930s, parents hung their babies in cages outside apartment windows.
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The Baby Cage — A Window Box for Infants
1920s Londoners hung wire cages from windows so babies could nap in the open air.
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The Monowheel — A One-Wheeled Car
A motorcycle built inside one giant wheel that hit 90mph — if you could stop it.
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The TV Glasses That Failed in 1963
A wearable television with a screen for each eye — 63 years before Apple Vision Pro.
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