Throwback Monday

Anyone else remember 1925? Man, was that some crazy partying! The popular music of the time was very popular, and everyone went to that place everyone was going to.

A little-known thing of 1925, though, was the Isolator.

The Isolator helmet was created by Hugo Gernsback. It's made to block out distractions so you can really focus on something, and there's an oxygen tank so you can breathe.

It's made of a thick metal that blocks out all sounds, and allows you to see only a little line of vision. This may be helpful for focusing, but overall, makes it impractical. There's no way to sense danger or switch to doing something else. Also, can you imagine how heavy that would be on your shoulders?

Anyway, though this thing may be part of the world in 1925, not 2015, there's still a lot of pictures of it on the Internet. Here's a few of them:

Photos and information courtesy of these websites: here and here. I recommend looking at the first link, the whole website is pretty cool.

See you tomorrow, thingologists! Have a good day!