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THREE UNBELIEVABLE ANCIENT INVENTIONS

         It was in 1882 that Samuel S. Applegate of Camden, New Jersey, patented equipment that would strike sleepers a slight blow in the face, hard enough to awaken them but not so violent as to cause pain. He proposed to suspend sixty blocks of cork on cords in a frame. The alarm clock would release them over the pillow so that some at least would fall on forehead, nose, mouth, or chin. Mr. Applegate said that connections could also be made with a burglar alarm or to ignite a gas heater in the bedroom at getting-up time.           Necklaces of bells to be clamped on rats and mice were invoked in 1908 as means to rid the house of them. Joseph Barad and Edward E. Markoff of providence, Rhode Island, said that the tinkling of a bell was as a rule very terrifying to rodents and that if pursued by such sounds they would immediately vacate their haunts and homes never to return. The inventors baited a trap in such a way that, when a rat poked in its head, a collar carrying bells

THE REAL FALSE DOOR IN EGYPT

      This priceless Egyptian false door carved out of stone, from the tomb of venerable Hanout, dates from the twelfth dynasty [2000-1788 BC.].       The first Mastabas [tombs in the ground] of the old kingdom had no rooms within them and only a false door in the East side. The dead, dwelling in the West behind the door, might enter again into the world of the living at will. This false door was finally elaborated into a kind of chapel-chamber in the mass of the masonry.       Throughout the years, false doors were changed to the west wall of the chamber so that the deceased, when looking out of the false door, would be facing the valley where the offerings were brought.       This door represented a symbolic entrance and exit which “Ba” or soul of the deceased could use to reappear from the beyond in order to make away the offerings placed in the tombs by survivors. Another purpose of the false door was to hide the true entrances to the burial chamber so that the tomb r