20 Unusual Tools Designed By Humans For Unique Problems

Take a trip with us into a world of specialized tools and machines built by humans to complete rather niche but necessary tasks. It’s an interesting combination of technology and rare antiques. Some of the photos below are of tools that you may only otherwise see in a museum display. Just like they are rare, they also give us an insight into the evolving process of human technologies and its impact on tool design. We live in such modern and futuristic times, but it’s amazing how innovative the human mind has always been and what we are capable of creating is sometimes c’est magnifique!

#1 This Truck For Servicing Street Lamps

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#2 Remote-Controlled Special Excavator To Demolish Cooling Towers Of Nuclear Power Plants

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#3 Hollowing Out A Clogg

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#4 This Thing To Clean A Kitchen Hand Whisk

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#5 Star Apple Parer And Slicer, 1871. One Of Three Known To Exist

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#6 Scania P360 With A Penetrating “Scorpion Stinger” That Can Penetrate A Building To Deliver Water Directly Into A Fire Without Putting Firefighters In Danger

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#7 Temporary Traffic Light

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#8 Beach Cleaning Robot Designed To Pick Up Small Pieces Of Garbage Hidden Beneath The Sand!

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#9 A Sliding Chair To Help Disabled People Into The Sea

 

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#10 Network Cable Comber

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#11 The Spider, An Aerial Lift For Getting Into Tight Spots

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#12 The Cyanometer. A 230 Year Old Tool Used To Measure The Blueness Of The Sky

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#13 Mountain Index For Identifying Nearby Peaks In Rocky Mountain Np

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#14 A Shoe Testing Machine From The 1940s

 

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#15 Cleaning The Solar Panels

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#16 This Is A Steno Machine, Used For Recording Words Verbatim At Speeds Over 225 Words Per Minute. Used In Court Rooms And Legal Depositions

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#17 Paper Crumpler For Padding Boxes To Ship

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#18 Large Wave Flume At A Wave Research Lab

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#19 A Tool For Testing Smoke Alarms. It Covers The Unit Snugly Then Releases A Puff Of Smoke, From There A Bloke On The Control Panel Can Tell Whether It Is Working Properly Or Not

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#20 Ruler My Allergist Used For Measuring Welts On My Arm After An Allergy Test

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