Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-13
In Case I'm Not Dead: The Museum of Safety Coffins
A richly assembled archive of 30 U.S. patents for safety coffins and grave signals, filed between 1843 and 1913.
Why it surfacedThe archive reads original patent drawings and specifications for bells, breathing tubes, flags, hatches, electric annunciators, and even a wired cemetery. Its careful ledger keeps the historical curiosity grounded: patented does not mean built, demonstrated, or sold.
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Thirty Patents for the Grave
August 13’s newborn domains include 30 safety-coffin patents, lost notices for false teeth and a box of hair, short films playing in 100 Tokyo taxis, and a Queensland river view arranged gauge by gauge downstream.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-13 Domain Arrivals issue.