A wire-enclosed "baby cage" was invented in 1922 to suspend toddlers outside of apartment building windows to get “proper fresh air.” We fact-checked this claim in November 2023 and found the peculiar ...

A wire-enclosed “baby cage” was invented in 1922 to suspend toddlers outside of apartment building windows to get “proper fresh air.” Sometimes we just don't get it quite right. One example is a ...

A wire-enclosed “baby cage” was invented in 1922 to suspend toddlers outside of apartment building windows to get “proper fresh air.” Turns out, this peculiar contraption was indeed real. Snopes ...

In the 1930s, city parents searching for fresh air came up with a chillingly strange solution — baby cages that hung from apartment windows. Marketed as a health innovation, these wire boxes dangled ...

Inequality by (Interior) Design, a blog by sociologist Tristan Bridges, turned one-year-old last month and it is quickly becoming one of my favorites. In a recent post, Bridges featured a product that ...