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Inventions stored in the Laboratory included various time-travel devices, “a prototype for an innovative [[bee]]-based mode of transport”, equipment for measuring “luck, rubber band elasticity and sense of humour”, unfinished blueprints for an [[anti-procrastination device]], a [[Shiny Object Locator]] which had quickly been misplaced, and various [[thinking cap]]s, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 27: The Kitchen|The Kitchen]]'') as well as [[the Alarum]], a short-range time machine resembling a wooden cabinet, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 27-II: The Lab: Setting The Alarum|The Lab: Setting The Alarum]]'') and a [[Perpetual Motion Machine]] connected to an otherwise-useless tower surrounded by a lightning storm. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 27-IV: The Lab: The Perpetual Motion Machine (Part 1)|The Lab: The Perpetual Motion Machine (Part 1)]]'', ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 27-V: The Lab: The Perpetual Motion Machine (Part 2)|The Lab: The Perpetual Motion Machine (Part 2)]]'') | Inventions stored in the Laboratory included various time-travel devices, “a prototype for an innovative [[bee]]-based mode of transport”, equipment for measuring “luck, rubber band elasticity and sense of humour”, unfinished blueprints for an [[anti-procrastination device]], a [[Shiny Object Locator]] which had quickly been misplaced, and various [[thinking cap]]s, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 27: The Kitchen|The Kitchen]]'') as well as [[the Alarum]], a short-range time machine resembling a wooden cabinet, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 27-II: The Lab: Setting The Alarum|The Lab: Setting The Alarum]]'') and a [[Perpetual Motion Machine]] connected to an otherwise-useless tower surrounded by a lightning storm. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 27-IV: The Lab: The Perpetual Motion Machine (Part 1)|The Lab: The Perpetual Motion Machine (Part 1)]]'', ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 27-V: The Lab: The Perpetual Motion Machine (Part 2)|The Lab: The Perpetual Motion Machine (Part 2)]]'') | ||
Collecting a [[certificate of sanity]] from the non-mad-science corner of the lab, and then showing that certificate to the [[personification of February]], was one of the steps in the complex ritual needed to gain access to [[#The Vault|the Vault]]. This was carried out on at least one occasion by [[Frank the Janitor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 43: The Vault|The Vault]]'') | |||
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