Artifacts of the past

Several interesting artifacts of the past and their destiny.

1. LAWN ROLLERS




Americans simply fanateyut their lawns, and for those who do not know, the US government may prescribe a penalty for groomed lawn in front of house. Therefore, American inventors have always paid special attention to the needs of American homeowners. Once beautiful old houses were surrounded by bushes, and grass used for a maximum of lawn rollers. Heavy wheel of cement, the first fans to help smooth lawn to create a smooth area in front of the house and to stamp the seeds in the ground. Now, as you can imagine, this is absolutely not true.

2. obstetric SIMULATOR



If you look closely, you'll probably see more than you wanted. Look closely and you will see a lanky young child with a yellow pillow-placenta whitish inside the uterus. And all this is in a small, hollowed out tree trunk. Obstetric simulator was used for centuries for the training of doctors and midwives. It is this simulator was made in Italy and was more than three centuries. He was considered very advanced at the time.

3. Boxes HAIR



What do you do with the hair from the comb? Throw? Shame on you. Use this container to hold your hair. Since Victorian times to the early 20th century, the ladies gathered their hair in a box such as this. The hair, thus, could be reused. For example, for filling pillows, the beds are made or beams which weave in their hair.

4. MIC BEAUTY



Beauty Micrometer by Max Factor was invented to help make-up artists in the choice of actor for the film. His face was measured at 325 settings and select the one that was necessary in the particular case. Max Factor in 1920 finally figured out how to make just such cosmetics that look good on camera. So after the 1920th After the mask gradual gone into oblivion.

5. COFFIN-SAFE



In the 19th century began the dawn of medicine. Medical schools of the United Kingdom produced the brilliant doctors, partly due to the fact that they could work with the bodies of dead or killed people. In fact, in those days people did not donate their bodies to science, so "fresh" body stealing directly from the fresh graves. The only legal source of cadavers for the medical - the bodies of executed criminals. How do you see the corpses was missing ... the future physicians actually did, according to the majority, Satanism, and therefore in some parts of Scotland, people began to strengthen the grave and the graves of their departed loved ones. There were different versions of such safes and often it helps.

6. laxatives CUPS



These cups are made of antimony and when he poured the wine, it rapidly oxidizes the wine actually turning into an effective laxative. These cups were considered family heirlooms and handed down from generation to generation. How good to drink wine and to solve the problem with the intestines. Later there were tablets of antimony metal is actually a tablet, which is swallowed and is also a nice relaxing intestine. But here without wine ... By the way, the tablet was reusable and her whole family to use.

7. Wooden rattle lepers



Lepers were required by law to keep away from the "normal", but they had to somehow communicate with the public at the same time, warning others of their presence. Therefore, in the 17th century, all the lepers were required to carry the wooden ratchet.

8. dummy tanks



As you know, these models were used for the sole purpose - to intimidate enemies and use them solely to the First World. Then, this method of intimidation was quite popular and effective, but everything changed when the military were quite good optical instruments, which was enough to allow the tank to distinguish the real from the layout.

Source: mentalfloss.com, Muz4in.Net

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