A Coffee Maker For Your Car? These Are The Weirdest Inventions From The Past

Upside Down Phonograph

Why? I understand that sometimes inventors do things just because they can, but unless you plan on using this phonograph in a zero gravity environment, is there really no reason to turn it upside down. This photograph of the invention doesn’t even really give a plausible reason for why you would ever need to turn one upside down.