From: CurtAdams@aol.com
Date: Sun May 18 1997 - 08:57:08 MDT
In a message dated 5/18/97 7:12:30 AM, Brian Davis wrote:
>I've been developing an interest in yestertech recently; steam engines,
>air wells, flying wings, etcetera. Specifically I'm looking for devices
>that were supposed to be "the next big thing" but that never really
>caught on.
>
>I'm thinking of putting together some sort of museum exhibit celebrating
>ignored and forgotten devices, schemes and plans.
Well, they're not past "next big things", but the Atlantic has an amusing
paragraph each month on some bizarre expiring patent.
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