....Altimiter; as in a meter that tells you how far above sea level like you'd get in an aeroplane; Except THIS one was fitted,
by the manufacturer, in a 4X4 car! It also had a roll meter and an artificial horizon!!!
The Baird Pneumatic undersock comprised basically of a half-inflated baloon placed inside the shoe. 'walking on air' wasn't a bad idea as Dr Martin later proved. But John Logie Baird's version (yes the same bloke who invented television) kept bursting and/or perishing and inflicting the wearer with the most god-awful smelly feet!
Bühlmann tables are diver's decompression tables. Anyone capable of Scuba diving to any depth these days will probably have a wrist-worn dive computer to monitor the dive. In time past though they DID use these 'ready reckoners' aided by the setting ring on the outside of their watch....
...thing is, IF you know what these things are and how to use them you're going to have become VERY familiar with them long before you take the rather daft notion of spending three grand on a watch! And will long-since have spent a sixth of that figure on a dive computer...
The only thing slightly dafter than this I've come across is the Breitling watch which has the facility to calculate your airspeed set against fuel consumption in order that you might establish what remaining flight time you have whilst piloting your private aircraft.... As a friend of mine pointed out; if you're flying along and are reduced to working out your remaining flight time on your watch you're in SERIOUS trouble and really ought to be looking for a place to ditch!!!
Magentic Window Cleaner (This may have been my fault but the first time I tried this I cracked the window! Cost four times as much to actually fix the glass. Now gathers dust and window cleaner is back )
The clue's in the name
Magnetic Window Cleaner.... You obviously have non-magnetic windows! :001_smile::001_smile:
