A History of Traffic Cones

This is legitimately a refreshing thread for this board.

Have a bump.

Traffic cones were invented by Charles D. Scanlon, an American who got the idea while working as a painter for the Street Painting Department of the City of Los Angeles. The patent for his invention was granted in 1943.

The first traffic cones used in the United Kingdom occurred In 1958, when the M6 motorway opened. These traffic cones were a substitute for red lantern paraffin burners being used during construction on the Preston Bypass. In 1961, David Morgan of Burford, Oxfordshire, UK believes that he constructed the first experimental plastic traffic cones, which replaced pyramid-shaped wooden ones previously used.

In the United States on May 1, 1959 the Pacific Gas and Electric Company in Oakland, California adopted the policy of placing the orange safety cones at left front and the left rear corners of their service trucks while parked on the street to increase visibility and safety for the workers. This policy was implemented as the result of a suggestion by their employee, Russell Storch, a cable splicer. He was awarded $45 for his suggestion. This policy is still in use today.

Although originally made of concrete, today's versions are more commonly brightly colored thermoplastic or rubber cones. Recycled PVCs from bottles can be used to create modern traffic cones. Not all traffic cones are conical. Pillar-shaped movable bollards fulfill a similar function

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>>2656313
Are these the concrete traffic cones used before?

Also, what did the wooden concrete cones look like?

How can David Morgan say he invented the plastic cones when Charles D. Scanlon had already invented them a decade earlier (and they were used)?

What about other parts of the world? What traffic cones did they use in China or France?

just let the thread die

>>2656482
>wooden concrete cones
wooden cones*

>>2656219
>this is how & humanities protests

>>2656770
>Why are all these people talking about Romans and Nazis! Why don't we talk about actual history like traffic cones!

>>2656770

Why would you bitch about a pretty benign history related thread? Is it not politically charged enough for you? I guess I can fix that.

How heavily were traffic cones involved in the holocaust?
Did Hitler like traffic cones?
Why did wooden barriers get totally KEKED by plastic cones? Was it the jews?
Did it have something to do with the traffic cone collaboration in the holocaust?

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>>2656962
SS Officer deporting traffic cones, Hambach 1942.

Brand new meme

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>>2657037
Foreground: Bavarian police officer shooing traffic cones away.
Background: Traffic cone prostituting itself.

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>>2657257
Ice bear mauling a traffic cone in the Vienna zoo, ca. 1943.

(The bear is a Nazi as well.)

>>2656962
At least Russell got his $45 fambam.

Tell me about the Puritans. Why did they wear traffic cones on their heads?

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>>2657311
Most historians speculate that the ritualistic practice of wearing traffic cones on their heads stemmed from an earlier very regional practice of cutting fetishes in that form that propagated throughout the whole culture when the elite adopted that practice.

This is why they are still so widespread. Image related.

>>2656962
This guy gets it. LOL

my mind is fucking bkllown

this is a neat thread

bump for uniqueness

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I think the sexual aspect of the traffic cone is underrepresented in this thread. The iconic traffic cone dildo has been cherished sex toy in the extreme insertion fetish scene for decades. Witha his simple design,a rugged construction and impressive size it helpe spreading out countless orifices of both boys and girls.

>>2660388
Why is he in a kitchen?

>>2656219
History can be just as cancerous as & Humanities
and yes, there are no mods here.