SYBIL'S HIT-OR-MISS HISTORIES! "Inventions That Failed"... the TAN-Ya Tailor.
/.... Professor Norman Hanracker had envisioned a time when people could get their daily requirement of vitamin D and a nice suntan all at the same time... all while taking a nap and in the convenience of their own homes... even when it rained or snowed! He'd been a mailman who went to night school to become a nutritionist and had graduated first in his class at Comestibles College!... and then his wife who ran a laundry service suggested that he combine a dry cleaning and pressing option to it too. He applied for a patent for his new “TAN-Ya Tailor”…And it all worked!!...Perfectly!... well until he demonstrated it in front of the local Chamber of Commerce luncheon..... Sadly, Norman was incinerated completely.... although his suit came out beautifully cleaned and wrinkle-free. Fortunately, his ashes could be brushed off the material easily… and the bankers were encouraged too by the fact that the machine had even replaced a button on his jacket....
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