“[…] it is an established fact that all human and/or animal corpses commence to decay and decompose immediately after death occurs. A recently published German newspaper article clearly attests to this corpse decay factor, and also provides data pertaining to the approximate rate of that decomposition. This item was published by the Deutsche Presse Agentur […]
Tag: coffin
The Coffin Blew Up (and maybe something about why it did)
This newspaper report gives public details about an embarrassing explosion: “The Coffin Blew Up“, The Meridan [Missouri, USA] Daily Republican, July 21, 1890. (Thanks to investigator Erwin Kompanje for bringing this to our attention.) Here is a reproduction of the entire article: BONUS (mostly unrelated): The 2012 Ig Nobel Prize for medicine honored the […]
Screw-in coffin: The video
New York based photographer David Friedman has just published a unique video profile of inventor Donald Scruggs – creator of the Easy Inter Burial Container – a.k.a. the Screw-in Coffin (profiled here last year). This is the most recent instalment of Friedman’s Inventors Portrait Project: Here’s a technical drawing from Mr. Scruggs’s patent:
Updating Vertical Burial (new patent)
California-based inventor Donald E Scruggs has been granted another patent relating to non-horizontal burial containers. His previous invention – The Easy Inter Burial Container (See: Improbable Research, 2010/02/05) provided, for the first time, “… a series of burial containers which can be pressed, agitated, screwed and or self bored into a receiving material and provide […]