Thinking of commissioning a novel domicile or business office but afraid that all those tasteful modern drinking glass buildings are a chip “samey”? Are y'all looking for a family or HQ that volition ensure that y'all stand upwardly out from the herd? Then the IPKat’s October Patent of the Month is simply what you’ve been looking for. Granted to James V Lafferty inwards 1882, the claim is for:
“A edifice having the degree of an animal, the torso of which is constructed alongside floors divided into apartments, provided alongside windows together with stair, together with supported on hollow legs, 1 or all of which comprise stairs, together with supported on hollow legs, which afford access to the body…”
It seems that novelty requirements were less strict a century agone equally Lafferty had already had a edifice inwards the sort of an elephant built the previous yr inwards South Atlantic City. This building, affectionately known equally Lucy, withal stands today inwards what is straightaway known equally Margate NJ. However, Lucy’s sis pachyderms, the Light of Asia together with Elephantine Colossus, did non survive. As good equally beingness a edifice of “unique appearance”, equally the patent specification points out, at that topographic point is a functional aspect to Lucy. The pinnacle provided yesteryear the legs allows air to circulate beneath the body, resulting inwards “a edifice which is good ventilated together with lighted”.
is rather swell on this see together with feels that the City of London would definitely create goodness from a edifice inwards the degree of an IPKat.
Visit Lucy here
Visit Margate here
Fun y'all tin sack accept alongside an elephant here and here
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