New Video About the Blonsky Device for Centrifugal Childbirth
Birthing at high rotational speed
The Blonsky device — the machine patented (US #3,216,423) by George and Charlotte Blonsky to assist a woman in giving birth by spinning her at high speed, has a long, storied career. The invention — the very idea of it — mesmerizes people.
The patent was granted in 1965. Interest in it accelerated in 1999 when the Blonskys were awarded an Ig Nobel Prize (posthumously) in the field of managed health care.
Brian Crandall (himself an Ig Nobel Prize winner, for an accomplishment rather different from that of the Blonskys) alerted us to this recent appreciatory video about the Blonsky device. It was created by Hashem Al-Ghaili:
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