We're not saying that no daft tech is created nowadays – just look at wrist exercisers and aromatherapy foot spas – but it does seem that the golden age of inventive yet mad gadgetry went west with the British empire and tennis players in long trousers.
Just look at these failed inventions of yore and weep for the passing of an era when anything, no matter how foolhardy, futile or life-endangering, was possible...
Featuring as black marks on the long and illustrious path to technological innovation, launch the gallery to see our historic gadget flops.
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