Patent Illustration from the Past: Space Gun 1959
We love looking at patents on Google and other blogs to discover beautiful ideas from the past.
The image above from the Patent Room is one of our recent favorites. John F. West’s 1959 patent is for a “pneumatic-hydraulic system which includes an elongated, transparent tube through which alternate liquid bubbles and gaseous pockets may be [...]
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