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  • Celebrity Magazine January 1956
    gadgets Doughnut-dunking machines: 1956 inventor's gadgets Ellsworth Toohey
  • Richmann and his engraver during the electrocution in St. Petersburg (Public Domain)
    Science Wikipedia's list of inventors killed by their own inventions keeps growing Ellsworth Toohey
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    History Man spent 40 years perfecting a lettuce cigarette Ellsworth Toohey
  • By artist not identified - Taken from Recreation magazine, by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen, volume 4, published 1896.Originally uploaded to EN Wikipedia as en:File:Puckle gun.jpg by en:User:Fluzwup 20 March 2008., Public Domain, Link
    History The 1718 gun with square bullets to "convince the Turks of Christian civilization" Ellsworth Toohey
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    art Artist Can Sun re-imagines apples Popkin
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