The Netherlands' Nationaal Archief has a collection of photographs of strange inventions, which can be seen at the Brain Pickings website in the page 27 of history's strangest inventions by Maria Popova.
Some of them, at least, seem to have been patented, and it would be fun to try to identify them...
I retired in April 2013 after 25 years as a librarian at the British Library specialising in inventions. This included running numerous workshops; writing books on inventions and a work blog; carrying out searches for clients; and one-to-one meetings with inventors. [more]
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