How much do you know about the tools, machines and contraptions of the past? Come take a tour through some of the most amazing gadgets of history. From wacky to brilliant, this quiz is a fun ride through this aspect of history!
Necessity is the mother of invention, as the saying goes. This old saw definitely applies to a good number of the historic gadgets in this quiz. Some may appear primitive to our modern eyes, but were groundbreaking inventions in their time that led to the modern tools and machines we rely on today. Other items have been rendered obsolete by the rapid technological advances of the last century or two. And then there's the third group — the odd contraptions that bear no perceptible relationship to Necessity whatsoever (her stepchildren, maybe?) For these curious artifacts, a different adage applies: To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -Thomas A. Edison.
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Whether or not you know anything about old gadgets or history in general, I promise this quiz on the gadgets of yesterday will entertain and inform — and sometimes make you count your lucky stars that we live in the era that we do! Especially the medical devices. . . consider yourself warned. Now, come on in and give it a go!
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I like it with pictures.