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Quirky Contraptions and Bizarre Blunders
Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
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Across
  • 1. Hook-and-loop fastener inspired by sticky burdock burrs
  • 2. Two-wheeled vehicle once considered a dangerous novelty
  • 3. One-piece garment originally designed for parachutists
  • 5. Name also used for a web browser, originally a nickname for a red panda
  • 6. Early method of sending scanned printed material by phone lines
  • 8. Three-dimensional image created with laser interference patterns
  • 10. Invented water sport involving a parasail towed behind a boat
  • 11. Code inventor whose electric telegraph revolutionized communication
  • 14. Ban attempt led to invention of smokeless cigarettes
  • 17. Early wrist-worn digital watch with light-up display
  • 18. Hat made with straw, mistakenly named for a different country
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  • 4. Early rigid airship that once symbolized luxury travel
  • 7. Futuristic flying vehicle combining motorcycle design with flight
  • 9. Tape used in sports medicine for movement support
  • 12. Vending restaurant concept famous in early 20th century
  • 13. Wireless device once debated as a useful household invention
  • 15. Device that simulates sunlight for artificial tanning
  • 16. Prefix related to early experimental electrical gadgets
  • 19. Hot-air invention that lifted humans for the first time
  • 20. Two-wheeled personal transporter often hailed as the future of travel

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