I came across kind of a cool site with articles from Modern Mechanix which were written as far back as the 1920's, including a category with several pages of nautical related articles:
I bet if the Darwind Awards existed back then, it would be full of stories of idiots trying to make some version of what is in that archive.
But the one that takes the cake for me is the Ocean liner that swallows waves and uses the waves to propel it along. Mate?!? Maybe Coc was still in Coke in the 30's.
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For God so loved the world..........He didn't send a committee.
"I bet if the Darwind Awards existed back then, it would be full of stories of idiots trying to make some version of what is in that archive.
But the one that takes the cake for me is the Ocean liner that swallows waves and uses the waves to propel it along. Mate?!? Maybe Coc was still in Coke in the 30's."
Sadly, the human progress hasn't progressed very far from that point...