On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:15:12 -0400, Rob H. wrote:

Just posted this week's set:

http://puzzlephotos.blogspot.com/

Without having looked at anybody else's guesses

1387. (West) Lafayette, Indiana is the home of Purdue University, whose
sports teams are named the Boilermakers. If there were a gauge on the
right-side part of the device, I might think it was a pressure
valve/indicator of some sort, which would be fitting on a boiler.
However, the closest thing it looks like is one of those pill dispensers
where all the pills go into a channel on one side of the device so they
can be put into the bottle one by one.

A google search on J. Horat reveals a Robert J Horat who was a paint
contractor -- and who was running an illegal distillery in his house
during Prohibition! http://tcha.ecn.purdue.edu:8080/?q=August (see
August 12, 1929) Boilers are used in distilling, aren't they?

1388. [something] Pictures. Mount for a dolly camera?

1389. The original bread slicer. Well, it looks like it's designed to
slice something, although it's most likely wood. However, the slices
don't appear to be of uniform width.

1390. It's a clamp. This one was easy.

Oh: you want to know specifically what it was designed to clamp....

1391. Mapquest on the ENIAC. :-)

1392. Looks like it combines a bottle-opener with something else, but
I'm not sure what that something else is.

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