text: Sire, innovation is great, but coming up with a brand-new invention no one has seen before isn’t necessarily a good thing. Some inventions don’t work as well as initially thought, solve an issue that didn’t need solving, or are only helpful for oddly specific situations. After the Industrial Revolution, many of these came from people who wanted to be the next big inventor. But all it showed was that they had way too much time on their hands. We’re looking at 20 inventions that did just that.
  #1: Complete Isolation
  In our modern day and age, we all know how hard it can be to concentrate with constant distractions around us. This invention from 1925 was known as “The Isolator,” and it was a full-head helmet designed to isolate you from the outside would so you could focus on your work. Would you consider trying something like this today?