There were other
great successes,
and there were many
near successes.
Emerson Hutt
(1831-1885)
died of
throat cancer
only days before
he would have
completed what
he called his
"Space Shuttle,"
and America would
have to wait
almost a hundred
years before a
group of scientists
finally picked up
where he left off
and hastily
completed the
project.
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It must be
admitted, of course,
that there were also
a few downright failures,
projects even more astonishing
than the Brass Digestive System.
DeBaca's
Sound Absorbing Doll,
for instance,
was nothing more than a
typical Yankee "doodad,"
interesting only
to lovers of
patchwork silence,
and Margood's
"The Gentleman's
Rectangular Companion"
was not only considered
far too sensual
for its time,
it just plain hurt most men.
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