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 ...

When we think about baby products, we often picture cute onesies, colorful rattles, and-the ever-important-car seat. But if we take a stroll down memory lane, we'll find some shocking relics from the ...

A wire-enclosed “baby cage” was invented in 1922 to suspend toddlers outside of apartment building windows to get “proper fresh air.” Some things are better left in the past. Take, for example, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Turns out, this peculiar contraption was indeed real. Snopes conducted a keyword search of “baby cage patent 1922” and found the invention was genuine. U.S. Patent 1448235 was described as a “Portable ...