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Rejected by the Inventions Board - Heath Robinson WW1

Rejected by the Inventions Board. IV - The Barb-Drawer: For extracting barbs from enemy wire entanglements. Another crackpot invention by Heath Robinson for defeating the dastardly Hun during the First World War

Picture No
14105129
Media ID
45755710
Size
4365px x 6094px (3.4MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Illustration by William Heath Robinson in The Sketch, 22 December 1915
Date
1915

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