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In the 1930s, London nannies lacking space for their young ones resorted to the baby cage. And it's exactly what it sounds like — a creepy wire contraption, patented in America in 1922, that let's you claim that space outside your city window for your infant. Risky? Maybe, but so convenient. How sweet; how sick.