Making gadget model (Childhood days)

I HAVE NO PHOTOGRAPH OF THESE MODELS.

Type writer, video camera, TV set , Telephone operating Board - These gadgets were made by me, not original but the models with thrown out Things.

TV set- A cardboard box, a picture pasted on the front as screen, TV nobs with toothpaste caps, the channel regulater with the cap of milk bottles used for babies. There was no remote control in that era.

Video camera - A rectangular cardboard box. I made a whole at a corner by the side of that box. Then an empty bottle of talcum powder of Boro calendula I took and fixed it into the hole. The bottle's body was wide to narrow type. It acted as the focus part of video camera.It was the era of big movie camera, not handicam time.

 

Type writer -

A big Shoe Box,I slanted the cover cap resting on another card board, fixed from backside. I collected some fused out switch buttons of lamp and ceiling fan. Then fixed them one after one as a row , using the screws from backside, using glue and making tiny holes on the slant part of the box.

I started pressing the buttons using my fingers as if it was a type writer.

Telephone operating board -

My grandmother was a telephone operator who told me about this technology.

I had a big wooden tool. On it I used to keep books for study.

Suddenly I kept that tool erected horizontally on a small table. I used plastic alphabets binded with woolstrings as plug ins, inserting them into the fine gap of wooden slides of the tool.

With a sewing frame made of steel I made headphone by attaching two powder puffs (made with cotton cloth and sponge) at both the ends of sewing frame. A little stretch widened the round frame as like head phone.

I sat on a chair, put the head phone over my head and ear and started using those plug ins mentioned before. As if they were acting to connect the false operating board.

I used to create such things by bunking school very frequently.

I became a vegetable seller with a Daaripallaa, selling vegetables at home, which were bought by my grandma from bazaar. Got second hand money from my family members.