A Pregnant Pause
by Alan Bellows from Damn Interesting on (#4C2ZD)

In January of 1963, husband and wife George and Charlotte Blonsky submitted a patent application for a revolutionary invention. George, a mining engineer, was not a father himself, but he was fond of children, and he evidently wished to expedite the propagation of the human species. To that end, the Blonskys proposed their Apparatus for [...]