29. A scary cage approved for babies
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This rare historical photo is of a home “appliance” that didn’t really catch on. Designed to help apartment living house wives air out their babies, this invention from the 1920s would have terrified the mothers of the 50s. Rumored to have caught on after a 1884 book called “The Care and Feeding of Children,” these baby cages were mostly found in London. Dr. Luther Emmett, who wrote the book, described that in order to renew and purify their blood, infants must be aired out. Do you think this baby cage is what he had in mind?
