# An experiment in gyro-hats

Author: Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937; Levering, Albert, 1869-1929 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70923

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=An+experiment+in+gyro-hats+Butler&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The idea of a gyro-hat did not come to me all at once, as some great ideas come to inventors; and in fact I may say that but for a most unpleasant circumstance I might never have thought of gyro-hats at all, although I had for many years been considering the possibility of utilizing the waste space in the top of silk hats in some way or other. As a practical hat dealer and lover of my kind, it had always seemed to me a great economical waste to have a large vacant space inside the upper portion of top hats, or high hats, or “stovepipe” hats, as they are variously called. When a shoe is on, it is full of foot, and when a glove is on, it is full of hand; but a top hat is not, and never can...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-experiment-in-gyro-hats-70923/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-experiment-in-gyro-hats-70923/chapters/2/index.md)