Strange early inventions - A fire and steam driven automatic door opening or closing device. Needless to say the idea never caught on

---

Size: 5205px × 5881px
Photo credit: © Colin Waters / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 1700s, 18th, 19th, bizarre, century, closer, closing, device, door, doorman, driven, eccentric, eccentricity, eighteenth, fire, forgotten, heated, historic, illustration, impracticable, impractical, madcap, manufactured, nineteenth, odd, oddest, opener, opening, operated, patent, patented, patents, prototype, prototypes, steam, strange, strangest, vintage, wackiest, wacky, water, weird, weirdest