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I had some time to see if I could spot any patent information about the electric motor Berliner Gram-o-phone posted about several weeks ago. So far nothing, but I did spot this:

https://griffonagedotcom.wordpress.com/ ... 1878-1912/

This will be a nice supplement to the other patent page -- http://www.phonozoic.net/patents/

OrthoFan

I have to agree with the writer... these are also some of my favorites:

"What you find interesting here will depend on what sorts of thing you find interesting in general, but if I can steer you towards some personal favorites, please be sure not to miss 1,016,218 (a combination of gramophone and butter churn), 769,473 and 999,975 (“phone typewriters” for converting speech automatically into legible typewritten documents), and 641,979 (a “surgical device” through which an erection would automatically start a phonograph playing and thereby wake the patient in time to avert “nocturnal seminal emissions”)."

The makers of refrigerators with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth internet and video connections were probably inspired by these... However, I think the Sperm-O-Phone is definitely unique and nothing like it should ever be made...

Curt A wrote:I have to agree with the writer... these are also some of my favorites:

"What you find interesting here will depend on what sorts of thing you find interesting in general, but if I can steer you towards some personal favorites, please be sure not to miss 1,016,218 (a combination of gramophone and butter churn), 769,473 and 999,975 (“phone typewriters” for converting speech automatically into legible typewritten documents), and 641,979 (a “surgical device” through which an erection would automatically start a phonograph playing and thereby wake the patient in time to avert “nocturnal seminal emissions”)."

The makers of refrigerators with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth internet and video connections were probably inspired by these... However, I think the Sperm-O-Phone is definitely unique and nothing like it should ever be made...

Sorry, but there popped into my mind a line from an old Memphis blues record....

"Now, keep a-churnin' till the butter comes..."

-Bill

652,641: Jeremiah J. Reardon and John Potterton, of Lynn, Massachusetts, “Advertising Apparatus,” filed June 6, 1899,

Kind of exists!