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For all you "Mothers of Invention" out there


Randy W

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from the Smithsonianmag

 

Patents (Only) a Mother Could Love

 

For Mother’s Day, we’ve pulled some of history’s wackiest patented ideas for mothers and children

 

 

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This 1910 patent is designed to "avoid unpleasant and embarrassing situations in which mothers are sometimes placed in public places by the necessary exposure of the breast in suckling the child." It's a complicated-looking harness, holding in place two breast shields from which flexible tubing emerges. The baby can suck milk from the tubes without the mother having to so much as unbutton a button. From a physiological perspective, we're not sure this would work. And a simple nursing cover achieves the same aim. But for post-Victorian moms, this may have been cutting-edge stuff.

 

 

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