The extraordinary catalog of peculiar inventions
Subtitle: the curious world of the DeMoulin brothers and their fraternal lodge prank machines-from human centipedes and revolving goats to electric carpets and smoking camels
By: Julia Suits
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780399536939
Subjects: DeMoulin Brothers (Firm); Fraternal organizations; History
Other titles: Curious world of the DeMoulin Brothers and their fraternal lodge prank machines-from human centipedes and revolving goats to electric carpets and smoking camels
Notes: "A Perigee book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The brothers DeMoulin : where, when, how they wert; title: Fraternalism 101 : orders, lodges, members; title: Fun work : the side-degree; title: Factory goats : unclassified species from the genus Ca-a-a-a-apra; title: See you in court! : botched initiations and the lens of the law; title: Zzzzzt! The shockers; title: Bang! Crash! Splat! The mechanicals; title: Wardrobe! The wearables.