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Folding chairs called faldstools were treasured as liturgical furniture pieces, used by bishops when not residing at their own cathedral. In the United States, an early patent for a folding chair was by John Cram in 1855. [5] On July 7, 1911, Nathaniel Alexander patented a folding chair [6] whose main innovation was including a book rest. [7]
Sarah E. Goode was the fourth African American woman known to have received a US patent. The first and second were Martha Jones of Amelia County, Virginia, for her 1868 corn-husker upgrade [ 23 ] and Mary Jones De Leon of Baltimore, Maryland, for her 1873 cooking apparatus.
Inventor Folding "cabinet-bed", forerunner of the Murphy bed; first African-American woman to receive a patent in the United States [83] [84] [85] Grant, George F. 1846–1910 Dentist, professor The first African-American professor at Harvard, Boston dentist, and inventor of a wooden golf tee. [86] Graves, Joseph L. 1955– Evolutionary biologist
Leonard C. Bailey (c. 1825 - September 1, 1918) was an African-American entrepreneur, inventor, and banker. He founded one of the first African-American banks in the United States. Bailey was born in about 1825 to a free African-American family. [1]
The post Lift every chair and swing: Why folding chairs are the symbol of the season appeared first on TheGrio. As more and more videos of the “Alabama brawl” surface, folding chairs have ...
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Frederick McKinley Jones (May 17, 1893 – February 21, 1961) was an American inventor, entrepreneur, engineer, winner of the National Medal of Technology, and an inductee of the National Inventors Hall of Fame. [1]
Statue of a director′s chair in Hong Kong. Frame of the folding stool of Guldhøj, Denmark (Nordic Bronze Age, 2nd half of 14th century B.C.) [1] Japanese traditional folding stool. A director's chair [2] [3] is a lightweight chair that folds side-to-side with a scissors action. The seat and back are made of canvas or a similar strong fabric ...