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  • c. 1900:
  • Chocolate Flying Machine
  • 1894:
  • Printed “Teaching Machine”
  • c.1900:
  • Patent Medicine Trade Cards
  • 1993:
  • Michael Jackson’s Anti-Gravity Illusion Patent
  • 1956:
  • Project 1794, the US flying saucer
  • 14th January 1963:
  • Shipping the Flying Scotsman to the USA
  • 1931:
  • Slot machine selling warm sausages in Germany
  • 1943:
  • Sister Mary Aquinas, the Flying Nun
  • WWI:
  • Machine-gun Harley
  • 1949:
  • Tanning Vending Machine
  • 1936:
  • Woman Invents Dimple Machine
  • 1986:
  • Daniel Libeskind’s “Reading Machine”
  • c. 1908:
  • The “Royal” bathing machine at San Sebastian
  • c. 1900:
  • Electric barge towing machine
  • 1943:
  • Coney Island Wind Machine
  • 1930s:
  • Nessler’s Permanent Wave Machine
  • 1931:
  • Mammoth Flying Swing to Give Bird’s Eye Pyramid View
  • c. 1952:
  • The Flying Crane
  • 1957:
  • “Flying Saucers for Everybody!”
  • 1970s:
  • “The Flying Pulpit”
  • c. 1947-1949:
  • “The Flying Banana”
  • c.1946:
  • Northrop Flying Wing
  • 1953-1957:
  • Hiller “Flying Platform”
  • 1976:
  • British Rail’s Flying Saucer
  • 1909:
  • Wilbur Wright Flying around the Statue of Liberty
  • c. 1914-1918:
  • Elephant-mounted machine-gun
  • c. 1910:
  • Bristol Boxkite aeroplane flying over Stone Henge
  • 1919:
  • Flying through the Arc de Triomphe
  • c. 1945:
  • Jesse Dixon’s Flying Automobile
  • 1810:
  • Diving Dress
  • 1880:
  • The American Star bicycle
  • 1867:
  • Tightrope Walker Austin Texas
  • c. 1855:
  • General Minier, New York State Militia
  • 1899:
  • Los Angeles’ first telephone pay station
  • 1919:
  • Demonstrating the Magnavox PA system