Crazy Old Inventions That Will BLOW Your Mind!

This is a self-launching lifeboat to save life at sea and we are ready to test it. Come on. We hope to make next time a little better. A simple idea often gets buried in a complicated design and a walking machine intended to make life easier becomes a contraption making life more complex. We're ready to demonstrate my inventions the automatic life safety boat which can be launched from the deck of any ship in case of emergency. Initial failure can lead to later triumph but with other life savers a failure could be too great a risk. Go out line to pull you out. Okay. This powerful wind machine will open your chute and drag you. Good deal. Okay boy. Okay let's go. Before asking someone to jump from a plane these chute designers look for a safer testing ground. The air taxi bus offers a modern alternative to the suburban businessman fed up with his daily commute. Thank you. Have you heard the story about the traveling salesman? Yes the travel salesman came down to teaching the finer more subtle movements of a sport. Some inventors really believed machines could teach technique with more precision than a pro. Let's see how you put expression into a sentence. Say she saw me with no expression. But for the pilot who designed the Trifibion to travel on land sea and air at 150 miles per hour a crash would mean failure. This project has not been an exception to the persecution of the experts. David Graham Bell going to jail because he said he could talk over a wire from town to town. Marconi going to an insane asylum because he said he could communicate without a wire. New occasions teach new duties they say. Time makes ancient ways uncouth. We must upward still and onward if we keep abreast of truth. So the footage archive youtube channel is a place where you can find historic footage from world history. Subscribe to take a trip back in time.