26Birthing apparatus
In 1965, a patent was filed for a "birthing apparatus" which would spin pregnant women around at as much as 7G until their baby was flung out from the centrifugal force.
27. Carl Haber created a machine named SmartScope that can read the surface of very old audio recordings and reproduce them without anything having to touch them; using the same type of technology that was used to see the Higgs boson particle.
28. A man named Arunachalam Muruganantham in India created and patented a machine that could manufacture low-cost sanitary pads for less than a third of the cost of commercial pads and provided the machines to self-help groups run by women all over India.
29. In the 1930's, Helene Adelaide Shelby invented an apparatus (Confession device) for obtaining criminal confessions, which consisted of putting the criminal in a dark chamber, and confronting them with a human skeleton with glowing red eyes, which contained a camera and microphone
30. The CIA issued rectal tool kits for spies. This imaginative gadget was designed to get operatives out of difficult situations.
