Mousetraps and Muffling Cups: One Hundred Brilliant and Bizarre United States Patents |
Contents
One Gentleman Choose Your Weapons | 2 |
Two Keeping It Clean | 24 |
Three Rube Goldberg Is Alive and Well | 50 |
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