Now here ’s a testament to build quality . If you ’ve ever deplore about your electronics die after just a few year , you ’ll be impressed with Colin Pullinger & Sons’Perpetual Mouse Trapwhich , 155 years after its design was originally patent , is still successfully catching mice .
They say if you build up a better mouse lying in wait the world will beat a track to your door , but apparently mankind ’s mouse trapping ingenuity top out back in the recent 1800s . Yesterday , the Assistant Curator of theMuseum of English Rural Life(MERL ) , at the University of Reading , in the UK , discovered that the antique trap had work once again , immobilize and kill a mouse that had somehow snuck into the museum .
The terrible irony of the mouse ’s death was that having successfully snuck into the museum , it had accession to a lifetime ’s supplying of woods and paper products for it to survive on — and possibly even build a cozy little shiner cabin with .
But , even though the Colin Pullinger & Sons yap had n’t been baited for decades , the mouse still decided that climbing inside was a enceinte topographic point to start its explorations of the museum . And devoid of battery , electronics , or other components that would have degraded and stopped working after 155 years , the trap still performed as laudably as it would have the day it was first assembled .
As for what ’s left of the mouse , the museum and university are debating having it taxidermied and put on display alongside the trap , as a testament to its ‘ Will Last a Lifetime ’ claim .
[ University of ReadingviaAtlas Obscura ]
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