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There is nothing like necessity to inspire invention - as the old saying goes - Necessity - the mother of all invention.
through in a lot of boredom, some desperation and lots and lots of time, and you have a perfect petri dish for inventions and innovation.
On place with plenty of all the above is prison. Any prison. Along with spending there time making things and doing things that are encouraged and allowed, prisoners also spend there time making and inventing items that are prohibited (well, a leopard doesn’t change its spots all that easily.)
Anyway, the reason that I am rambling on about this is because of a post I just read on Accidental Mysteries about a collection of the most amazing escape tools made in German prisons, photographed by the photographer Mark Steinmetz.
This Dagger, for example, was disguised as a crucifix, and after finding this dagger, prison authorities understood why the sudden influx in crucifixes….
