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Prisoners' Inventions
- brudgers 11y agoLink to Drawings: http://temporaryservices.org/served/projects-by-name/prisoners-inventions/drawings-of-inventions/ http://temporaryservices.org/served/projects-by-name/prisone...
- Houshalter 11y agoI remember seeing a PoW exhibit at the Dayton Air Force museum, where they had all kinds of crazy things that american PoWs made in german prison camps. Including a working clock made of cardboard, and an insanely elaborate mouse trap, with many different chambers that each had a different trap. All I could find online was this picture, which doesn't really do it justice: http://jenpowell.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/usaf_pow.jpg http://jenpowell.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/usaf_pow.jpg
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- pavel_lishin 11y agoI found this, which is at least a higher-res image of the clock: http://photos.thesandholms.com/Vacations/Rhode-Island-Trip/USAF-National-Museum/i-TkvpL9n http://photos.thesandholms.com/Vacations/Rhode-Island-Trip/U...
- dclowd9901 11y agoI think the most interesting part of prisoners' inventions is how humble they are. A salt shaker. A radio. Hot glue dispenser. Simple small things that apparently enrich a person's life enough (and makes getting through prison life better enough) to go through the trouble of building them from scratch.