Posts

Showing posts with the label rat

THREE UNBELIEVABLE ANCIENT INVENTIONS

         It was in 1882 that Samuel S. Applegate of Camden, New Jersey, patented equipment that would strike sleepers a slight blow in the face, hard enough to awaken them but not so violent as to cause pain. He proposed to suspend sixty blocks of cork on cords in a frame. The alarm clock would release them over the pillow so that some at least would fall on forehead, nose, mouth, or chin. Mr. Applegate said that connections could also be made with a burglar alarm or to ignite a gas heater in the bedroom at getting-up time.           Necklaces of bells to be clamped on rats and mice were invoked in 1908 as means to rid the house of them. Joseph Barad and Edward E. Markoff of providence, Rhode Island, said that the tinkling of a bell was as a rule very terrifying to rodents and that if pursued by such sounds they would immediately vacate their haunts and homes never to return. The inventors baited a trap in such a way that, when a rat poked in its head, a collar carrying bells