15 More Very Questionable Retro Inventions

Let’s try and estimate the possible injuries that occurred.

1. Facial Snow Shield

Via Canada, from 1939.
No, no, no, NO.

Via: iliketowastemytime.com

2.

I like the idea behind it.
But, much like the show shields above, I foresee suffocation.

Via: 50watts.com

3. Gas Attack Baby Stroller

Via England.

Via: iliketowastemytime.com

4. Bronze Lips

“…cover your lips with our goo…”
For you Overly Attached Girlfriends.

5. Car Dog Walker

Let’s move on to animal abuse.
WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

Via: funstuffcafe.com

6. Running Board Dog Sack

1936.
Define “comfortably.”

7. RectoRotor

15 seems such a random cutoff age…

Via: irreverentpsychologist.tumblr.com

8. Wooden Bathing Suits

For those who don’t float well.

Via: leblogdesovena.com

9. “Mobile” Phone

Poor guy.

Via: funstuffcafe.com

10. Dimple Machine

Worked wonders, I’m sure.

Via: vintage-ads.livejournal.com

11. Glide-O-Bike

1931.
25¢ starts you dying, too.

Via: vintage-ads.livejournal.com

12. Entire Family Bike

…with a built-in sewing machine.

Via: iliketowastemytime.com

13. Solar Bath Apparatus

1933.
“Diseases of the head” is such a broad term.

Via: blog.modernmechanix.com

14. Eye Exerciser

1938.

Via: blog.modernmechanix.com

15. Amphibious Bike

The look on the test subject’s face says it all.

Via: funstuffcafe.com

Previously:
15 vintage inventions that never caught on.