You are being pro­vid­ed with a book chap­ter by chap­ter. I will request you to read the book for me after each chap­ter. After read­ing the chap­ter, 1. short­en the chap­ter to no less than 300 words and no more than 400 words. 2. Do not change the name, address, or any impor­tant nouns in the chap­ter. 3. Do not trans­late the orig­i­nal lan­guage. 4. Keep the same style as the orig­i­nal chap­ter, keep it con­sis­tent through­out the chap­ter. Your reply must com­ply with all four require­ments, or it’s invalid.
I will pro­vide the chap­ter now.

STRANGE INVENTIONS
 
�            The cyclom­er was an amphibi­ous bike that was invent­ed in Paris in
1932. It had four air-filled floats to keep it up and was pro­pelled by
two fan blades that were attached to the spokes.
 
�       Lon­don design­er Dominic Wilcox invent­ed the fin­ger-nose sty­lus in
the late 2000s so he could use his iPhone in the bath­tub. It’s a long
Cyra­no de Berg­er­ac look­ing nose that you strap to your head.
 
�       Valentin Vodev designed the roller bug­gy for par­ents on the go. It’s a
com­bi­na­tion scoot­er-baby bug­gy, which makes me won­der if Vodev is
a par­ent.
 
�       The Greek-Alexan­dri­an sci­en­tist, Cte­si­bius (285–222 BCE), invent­ed
many devices. His most notable inven­tion was a water-pow­ered organ
called the hydraulus.
 
�            Today there’s an app for every­thing. There’s even a “tam­pon app”
that lets women know when it’s time to switch things around.
 
�       Chester “Buck” Weimer’s claim to fame is being the inven­tor of the
world’s first odor-proof under­wear. The Col­orado inven­tor received
the patent for his fart-proof under­wear in 1998.
 
�            The “ham­ster shred­der” may sound awful, but it’s actu­al­ly pret­ty
use­ful. It’s a ham­ster cage with a paper shred­der on top that’s ham­ster
pow­ered!
 
�            Chi­nese inven­tor Lu Ban (ca. 507–444 BCE) has been cred­it­ed for
invent­ing the “wood­en bird.” It’s not quite known what it was, but an
ancient text stat­ed it stayed in the air for three days, sug­gest­ing it was
a kite.
 
�            The baby mop is a real thing. It’s an infant one­sie with mop strings
attached to its front. I kid you not!
 
�            Iron­ing and cof­fee seem to go togeth­er, right? That was the idea
behind the Iro­nius, the clothes iron-cof­fee mug com­bo, but it’s yet to
catch on.
 
�            Kraft began sell­ing sliced, processed cheese in 1950. But
indi­vid­u­al­ly wrapped cheese slices were invent­ed by Indi­ana engi­neer
Arnold Nawroc­ki, who worked for the Clearfield Cheese Co, which
released the prod­uct in 1956.
 
�       In 1949, the “radio hat” start­ed sell­ing in Amer­i­can stores. Billed as
the “Man-from-Mars Radio Hat,” it was sim­ply a portable radio built
into a plas­tic safari hel­met.
 
�       The Japan­ese cam­era com­pa­ny Doryu pro­duced the unique Doryu 2-
16 from 1954 to 1956. This 16mm cam­era was spe­cial because it
looked just like a semi-auto­mat­ic pis­tol and even made a loud sound
when the trig­ger was pulled, but this gun only shot pic­tures.
 
�            Jaap Hau­mann invent­ed the “anti-rape tam­pon” in South Africa in
2000 and was mar­ket­ed in 2005. The device is insert­ed like a tam­pon,
with a spring acti­vat­ing a blade on a poten­tial rapist’s jew­els!
 
�            The Roman engi­neer Vit­ru­vius (c. 80–15 BCE) fol­lowed in
Ctesibius’s path in many ways. His most impres­sive inven­tion was the
ear­ly steam engine. His writ­ings on anato­my were also the inspi­ra­tion
for Leonar­do da Vinci’s draw­ing, Vit­ru­vian Man.
 
�       Brit Har­vey Adams is cred­it­ed with invent­ing the “mous­tache cup” in
the 1860s. The cup worked by hav­ing a ledge with a small open­ing
that allowed liq­uids to pass with­out get­ting the whiskers wet.
 
�       Snow pro­tec­tors were invent­ed in Cana­da in 1939 to pro­tect against
the harsh north­ern win­ters. They were sim­ply plas­tic cones you put on
over your face!
 
�       Antikythera mech­a­nism, is an ancient Greek mechan­i­cal device used
to cal­cu­late and dis­play infor­ma­tion about astro­nom­i­cal phe­nom­e­na.
The remains of this ancient “com­put­er,” now on dis­play in the
Nation­al Archae­o­log­i­cal Muse­um in Athens, were recov­ered in 1901
from the wreck of a trad­ing ship that sank in the first half of the 1st
cen­tu­ry BCE near the island of Antikythera in the Mediter­ranean Sea.
Its man­u­fac­ture is cur­rent­ly dat­ed to 100 BCE, give or take 30 years.
 
�       The flask tie was invent­ed for those who can’t make it to hap­py hour.
It looks like a reg­u­lar cor­po­rate tie, but beneath the stripes is a pouch
for your booze.
 
�            There was actu­al­ly a group shav­ing machine in the 1800s. It’s no
won­der why the device didn’t make it in the era of straight razors!
 
�            The Chi­nese inven­tor, Zhang Heng (CE 78–139), is cred­it­ed with
invent­ing the world’s first seis­mo­scope. His device could record the
direc­tion but not the time of an earth­quake.
 
�            The pater­nos­ter lift is a non­stop ele­va­tor with no doors, invent­ed in
1868 in Eng­land. Due to the obvi­ous safe­ty con­cerns, they’ve been
large­ly elim­i­nat­ed except for a few places in Europe.
 
�            Charles Stein­lauf invent­ed the sewing machine bicy­cle in 1939 (aka
The Goofy­bike). It was a pyra­mid-shaped con­trap­tion where two
peo­ple ped­dled, the per­son in front steered, and a per­son in the mid­dle
used the sewing machine.
 
�            Gun­pow­der was first invent­ed in Chi­na in the 9th cen­tu­ry CE, but it
wasn’t ful­ly weaponized until it made its way to Europe in the 13th
cen­tu­ry. Euro­peans then brought mus­kets and can­nons to East Asia in
the 16th cen­tu­ry.