Ionaco [SEP] discoverer or inventor
Ionaco
The Ionaco (often stylized as I-on-a-co or I-ON-A-CO) was an electric belt developed by Gaylord Wilshire after his career in politics. It was advertised during the 1920s as a curing device but was dismissed by contemporary medical experts as quackery.
Background.
Some historians have offered different theories on Wilshire's decision to work on the Ionaco. Carolyn Thomas de la Peña wrote that it could have been to make up for Wilshire's political failures. Donald G.
though it could also be purchased on credit for $5 () a month.
Legacy.
In 1928 Philip Ilsey, the former manager of the Iona Company in Cleveland, started marketing an Ionaco clone called the Theronoid. Similar electric belt imitations appeared during this time, and were given names such as the "Ionizer," or the "Restoro". Such imitations continued to be sold on the market even after promoters stopped marketing the Ionaco in the 1940s.
Contemporary health experts dismissed the Ionaco and its spin