I came across this slide show on the web. I must say, some of the inventions aren't at all dumb - some were very forward-thinking. This one here, however...I don't even know...
via www.life.com
The caption reads:
Baby Cage, 1937
A nanny supervising a baby suspended in a wire cage attached to the outside of a high tenement block window. The cages were distributed to members of the Chelsea Baby Club in London who have no gardens, or qualms about putting a child in a box dangling over a busy street.
O.K.
First of all, I couldn't stop laughing, out of horror. So many questions spring to mind. Who would think this is a good idea? Who is it that lent their baby to be the model for this contraption? Just the words "Baby cage" make me start laughing again.
