Inventions of an Idiot (1909)

An eccentric looking man in his laboratory is visited by a friend to whom he shows his latest inventions. The first one is a baby incubator, a most astonishing invention. He next puts his visitor into a tonsorial cabinet from which he emerges minus beard and hair. The visitor is most indignant. The inventor quietly pushes him hack into the cabinet. A few backward movements and the visitor appears again with a luxurious growth of hair and heard. The next invention shown to the visitor is a jigsaw puzzle which is solved in record breaking time. After this the inventor takes his visitor into his fly mobile. They are off at a speed of 200 miles an hour. Suddenly the automobile explodes and the two drop to earth. The visitor does not want to see any more. A pressure on the push button and he is thrown out of the door.

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