Inventions .....

                                                   ..... that didn't quite make the inventors famous:

A wheelie good idea: One wheel motorcycle invented by Italian M. Goventosa de Udine in 1931

A real photo-shoot: The Revolver camera is a Colt 38 carrying a small camera, with six pictures taken by the camera. New York, 1938.

The Au' is an inflatable fishing and hunting boat designed for one person with boots attached, designed in the Netherlands, 1915

A car mounted pedestrian catcher. The shovel-like contraption fixed to the front of a car was designed to reduce the number drunk pedestrians killed or injured on Paris's busy roads in 1924.

Lets off-road!! A ten wheel all terrain car that is able to descend slopes of up to 65 degrees, England, in 1936.

A human powered dredging machine. Workers use their arms and legs to move the bucket dredge, Holland, 1761.

The first sat nav: A TomTom-like invention, where the map passes the screen depending on the speed of the car. Although quickly discarded as it was not a very reliable form of finding your way in 1932.

Forget your iPad! How about a portable radio in a straw hat? Made by an American inventor in 1931