This 1903 patent proposed preserving bodies in transparent glass blocks

What if you could preserve your loved ones forever, suspended in a crystal-clear glass cube? That's what Russian inventor Joseph Karwowski proposed in 1903, patenting a method to encase corpses in transparent glass blocks for eternal display.
The process, as reported in Hyperallergic, aimed to keep bodies 'in a perfect and lifelike condition' indefinitely. — Read the rest
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