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.
[...] Skulle du føle deg litt slapp etter å ha forstørret puppene dine ved å blåse i en ballong, eller pådratt deg en skade fordi du ikke fulgte trafikklyset i gangen, kan du sette deg i din ensylindrede motoriserte gyngestol med speedometer og lytte til radioen, som selvfølgelig går på parafin. [...]
One too many beers and Mr. Miller will lose his footing and be thrown into the next state!
With an unmuffled engine that close he would probably go deaf fairly quick as well.