![Motorized Surfboard, 1948](https://www.bygonely.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/crazy_useless_inventions_7.jpg)
Back in 1948, there was apparently nothing weird about riding across a lake on a motorized surfboard while wearing a nice suit and bowler hat and smoking a cigarette. Forget his lack of safety gear – inventor Joe Gilpin looks cool gliding along on the water.