The People Of Halifax Invented The Trampoline. During The Victorian Period The Tripe-dressers Of Halifax Stretched Tripe Across A Large Wooden Frame And Jumped Up And Down On It To `tender And Dress' It.

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The people of Halifax invented the trampoline. During the
Victorian period the tripe-dressers of Halifax stretched tripe across a
large wooden frame and jumped up and down on it to `tender and dress'
it. The tripoline, as they called it, degenerated into becoming the
apparatus for a spectator sport.

The people of Halifax also invented the harmonium, a device for
castrating pigs during Sunday service.
-- Mike Harding, The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac

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