[Milsurplus] Ebay auction - worth a look.

[Barry Hauser]

Will Donzelli wrote:
> You just have to see for yourselves. Swallow your drink before viewing.
>
> Item number 110006308853

To be read in the manner of W.C. Fields:

Ahhhh... yessss.  I remember it well...  The famous pilot communications
experiment of 1925.  It was a colossal failure.  It worked well, but looked
too silly.  <step aside son, ya bodder me>

But many years later, the design inspired a much more useful contrapt, uh,
invention.  Funny you should mention drink <hic> Will.  It is also available
at the same fine emporium.  Take a gander at 200006238695.