![]() ![]() That is not all there is also an electric motor concealed under the platform that turns on a good current of "juice" $12.50 (50 blank cartridges included) $155.00 (including knives)Ĥ) 920837 Lifting and Spanking Machine - Watch videoĪs the candidate lifts up on the handles, a spring is released causing the paddle to strike him on the "kazabo," and a blank cartridge to explode with a loud report. ![]() This, in coordination with an electric current passing instantly through the arm, gives the sensation of being cut by the edge of a blade. Perfectly harmless, but a complete deception." The candidate believes that the knives are being thrown by the Arab, but the knives are concealed back of the wall and thrown out through slots with a thud by means of springs operated from behind. $21.00 $33.50 (with electrical shock attachment) $0.45 (box of 50 extra blanks) The initiate, thinking he is showing off his manliness with an ordinary strength-testing device, is surprised by the sudden simultaneous actions of a 32-calibre blank cartridge exploding at the rear, a paddle striking "where his mother used to apply her slipper," and a spray of water discharging in his face. "When the candidate attempts to answer this telephone, a 32-calibre blank cartridge will be exploded with a loud report, and at the same time white powder will be blown with a strong blast from the transmitter into his face." $35.00 Of the hundred-plus patents the DeMoulins filed between 18, several dozen were granted. The DeMoulins were among America's high-tech geeks and makers at the peak of the "Golden Age of Invention." You can read more about the DeMoulin brothers and their wacky inventions in this book: Nationwide, the years 1907 through 1911 saw the most patents granted-about 16,000 per year. Nearly all their prank devices came via catalogs published by the makers,the DeMoulin Brothers Company, from 1896-1930.Įmbodiments of fraternal mischief, the prank machines were inventions of three sons of a French immigrant carriage builder in Western Illinois. "It's as if Buster Keaton and Harry Houdini took over Montgomery Ward and branched out into weird."Īt the beginning of the twentieth century, 40 percent of American men belonged to a fraternal lodge, and they were hazing their newbies with squirting goats, spanking machines, electric chairs and carpets, and the like. You will remember our hilarious serious Weird Inventions by Guys this time we give you a treat from Julia Suits, author of the "The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions" (None of this material has appeared on the web anywhere else, so this is exclusively for DRB readers) Send us your topic ideas, suggestions, etc.Ĭreators of these pranks were America’s original hi-tech geeks of the new electric age. ![]()
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