The purpose of inventions is to make our lives easier. However, in the prior century they had quite different ideas of what would make life easier to deal with. Here are some of the most outrageously hilarious vintage inventions that we are most likely better off without!



March 16, 1960: A suit designed by the Republic Aviation Corporation sought to solve the problem of what the 'well-dressed man' would wear for a stroll over the airless moonscape. In an article in the New York Times, the manufacturers promised that the suit would have its own oxygen supply and that the tripod legs would enable the wearer to rest simply by sitting down. The extending wrench hands were to be used to securing loose screws.

Circa 1955: Russell E. Oakes, an amateur American inventor, wearing some of his novel inventions. The spikes on his arms enable him to push his way through a busy department store. He invented a wind-up spaghetti eater for those that must have their spaghetti fix, and a strange fanning contraption for the head.

March 21, 1933: Women demonstrating the use of a new machine that allows them to 'wear their hearts on their hair'. A fountain gadget outlined the initials of their love in their hair for everyone to see. Certainly, other men would not talk to them, not because of the initials, but because this gadget must have made them look like inmates!