Motorized Rocking Chair (Dec, 1955)
I love the fact that it has a gear shift.
Automatic Drive Catches Up with Rockin’ Chair
Feller retired t’other day and got himself a new kind of rockin’ chair. Rocks itself. Rocks him, too. Semms like when this feller, a machinist type, quit to take it easy, some other fellers he’d worked with said, “Well now! How about havin’ a chair that rocks automatic-like?” So they built it out of a one-cylinder gas engine and gears. Works, too. Noisy though. Feller’s name is Frank miller. Other fellers – them as built it- are Bull Nyman, Bob Connely, Joe Wright and Bill Jacobus. Chair rocks itself and Frank in Huntington Station, N.Y.
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Pingback by 2. desember: Tilbake til framtiden (retro-futuristisk design) at Magnarokk ☆☆☆ — December 3, 2006 @ 8:48 pm
One too many beers and Mr. Miller will lose his footing and be thrown into the next state!
Comment by mike — December 7, 2008 @ 3:03 am
With an unmuffled engine that close he would probably go deaf fairly quick as well.
Comment by Chair Guy — May 1, 2010 @ 11:22 am