Here is an unusual invention involving running liquids through a tube over a person’s forehead to get them to sleep. It sounds and looks pretty weird, but then I am reminded that the inventions coming out today are also pretty whacked.
Sleep Making Machine
How It Puts You to Sleep
Do you sleep poorly? Well, here’s a sleeping machine invented by an aged English woman and recently put on exhibition in London.
The apparatus delivers a flow of water or medicated fluid across the forehead of the patient at a graduated speed and in fixed quantity, and it is this flow that lulls the patient to sleep. A pad is attached to the forehead and the liquid enters through a tube at one end and escapes at the other, says Popular Mechanics.
The inventor of the apparatus conceived the idea while watching African mothers soothe infants to sleep by letting water flow through reeds upon their brows.
Source: The Day Book (Chicago, Illinois newspaper). June 20, 1912.
