Wing VII of XII
Inventions
Outlandish devices that could have changed history.
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Newest in this wing
The Sun Dial Smartwatch
Dr. Luna Solare's wristwatch tells the hour by shadow, is powered by the light it measures, and declines, on principle, to work after sunset.
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The Automatic Shoe Lacer
Archibald Tinker's lacing engine tied a boot in eleven seconds and weighed more than the foot it sat on; a hundred years later TinkerTech tried the whole thing again.
5 II 2024
The Perpetual Motion Hamster Wheel
Leonardo Da VinciHamster's gilded treadwheel first turned in a Florentine courtyard in 1503, and for two centuries nobody managed to catch it stopping.