JF Ptak Science Book LLC Post 672
Last week I made a post regarding a fish-throwing apparatus installed at a zoo–honestly I didn’t anticipate that there would be a follo
w-up post on another animal-throwing machine, but, well, unfortunately, here it is.
Eduard Wulff, a circus manager and resident of Bruxelles,
was granted this patent in 1904 for a device that would “project horses,
elephants, monkeys etc into the air” so that they would perform a sommersault.
Elephants? Flying, somersaulting,
elephants?
The abstract from the British Intellectual Property Office is reprinted below: