Can you imagine encounter any of these at your local pool or beach ?
1.U.S. 885212: Life-Preserver and Swimming Machine, 1910
In 1907 , Modesto , California resident physician W.H. Young and O.B. Lyon had what they thought was a smart as a whip approximation for a new twist : A combining life flotation machine / swimming machine , which could be used both for diversion or " in a pillow slip of necessity , whereby in cases of accident or ship crash the survivors may get safely by from the watercraft and propel themselves to a piazza of refuge . " Their letters patent was grant in 1910 .
Here ’s how Young and Lyon envisage it would work : An airtight compartment , equip with a keel , would be slash around a person ’s body . The keel would be link to " a driving screw propelling mechanism accommodate to be operated by the manual force of the wearer . " The inventors also suggested making the airtight compartment several compartments , so that if one was punctured , the person could still stay afloat .
2.U.S. 3133522: Swimming Apparatus, 1964
Inventor Aristide Nicolaie created this machine that " when bond to the wearer and used by him in washup will start the wearer to go at a relatively high-pitched rate of fastness through the urine whether or not the wearer can swim . "
To use the machine , the wearer slip into a flexible harness that is connected on one terminal to a tubular frame ; a compromising spear carry through the frame to the treadle . A 2nd flesh , space away from the tubular frame , is join to the harness . There is also " a propellor rotatably stick out in the 2nd frame , and the propellor being connected to the end of the prick opposite from the pedals and circumvolve by such shaft when the pedals are rotated , the second frame and the propellor being movable proportional to the tube-shaped skeleton by motion of the body of a swimmer for steering . " The patent was grant in 1964 .
3.U.S. 1732679: Aquatic vehicle, 1929
Emil Haby charge the patent for this gadget in 1928 . The equipment , he wrote in the letters patent , " aims to provide a novel , simple and useful equipment whereby travelling may be expedited on water and wherein an somebody may move front berth to place upon a body of water without requiring the services of a motor or other fictional character of sauceboat . A vehicle of this character will prove to extremely comical to bather as well as useful to those actually desiring to jaunt from one place to another upon a body of pee . " The letters patent was granted in 1929 .
4.U.S. 243834: Swimming Apparatus, 1881
This " swim apparatus , " invented by William Beeson " of Dillon , in the county of Beaver Head and Territory of Montana , " was " in the nature of a detachable suit cater with pockets or receptacle for the consistence and arm , and take between the pockets for the limb a web parcel , which act like wings or five , which , from the movement of the legs and arms , effectuate a propulsion through the water . " The suit looks more like something you ’d see on a skydiver than a swimmer . Of course , when Beeson patent it in 1881 , nobody was flying but the bird .
5.U.S. 964886: Device for Teaching Swimming, 1910
Forget weapon system floaties : Charles G. Sickels , occupier of Santa Cruz , California , had a better style to instruct kid to swim , and it involves a torture chamber . This gimmick , patent in 1910 , was " contrive for the purpose of teaching one the strokes and movements necessary for one to drown with ease … to be used on land and not in the water by which one acquires a drug abuse of not only make the right strokes but also of give the proper combination of strokes . " The would - be swimmer lays on a basis — his face sticking through , as though he were on a spa ’s massage board — and cable are attached to his wrists and mortise joint . The proper wrist cable passes over pulleys to the leftover ankle , and vice versa . " By this arrangement it will be seen that when he makes outward horizontal separatrix with his right arm the functioning of the cable L2 draw his left fundament downwardly , " Sickels writes . " alike when his left sleeve operates a downward movement of the right peg is effect . Also when the arms are operated at the same time the leg are also moved down . " Sounds fun !
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