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Posted in Oddities, Technology by Greg Ross on January 25th, 2008

http://www.google.com/patents?id=kcNkAAAAEBAJ&dq=1903+andrew+jackson

If you were planning to get rich by inventing chicken spectacles, you're 100 years too late.

Andrew Jackson patented this pair in 1903 so that chickens could "be protected from other fowls that might attempt to peck them."