icag.biz/customers.html On this day in 1904 Carl Brendel, Ph.D., was granted the patent for Apparatus for the Prevention of Seasickness. U.S. Patent No. 769,466.
The object of this invention is to provide means for the prevention of seasickness, which consists in making the long movements of the ship when pitching, rolling, heaving, and setting less felt by the passenger by providing chairs, couches or a whole platform, forming a part of the deck, and carrying said chairs or couches and giving them either by machinery or by the hand short up and down motions. In consequence the long movements of the ship being thus changed into a great number of short motions which are constantly interrupted by short movements in an opposite direction the causes producing seasickness are counteracted. The devices for producing the shaking motions may vary.
