Top left: patent drawing from 1955 Bubble Nose Mask patent (cereal box with clown face, allowing one to blow a bubble gum bubble through hole to form clown’s nose); on right: Terje Sagvolden’s clown-face operant panel with a nose-lever to release reward which is delivered in clown’s mouth—(research apparatus for behavioral experiments with children); 2nd row, left: Honeywell’s clown-face Tap-Lite; on right a detail of the red clown-nose indicator light on Milton Bradley’s Operation game; 3rd row, left: a vintage clown-face rotary-dial toy telephone by Ambi Toys ($8 on Etsy); center: a patent drawing for 1974 children’s spoon design (with clown’s tongue serving as business end of spoon); on right: patent drawing for 2007 cell phone with buttons arranged to resemble a clown face; 4th row: Dennis P. Paul’s Instrument for the Sonification of Everday Things (with clown head attached); bottom row, right: vintage “Flicko the Clown” light switch plate made by Falcon Plastic Products (clown nose is attached to toggle pole switch); on right: clown mouth slot in cap for vintage Grapette syrup clown-shaped bank/jar
We’ll talk about this tomorrow.
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