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Science: Path of Progress

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TIME

Minor-league inventors had a field day at the “World’s InventionExposition” in Chicago. Sample exhibits:

¶ A girdle to round out flat buttocks.

¶ A “walk away cane” equipped with a suction cup to hold thestick vertical while the stroller walks away.

¶ A complicated nonslip brassiere to eliminate a hazard for bosomy golfers.

¶ An electric vibrating pencil eraser.

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