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2. Step stool - Wikipedia

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   Step stools are halfway between a ladder and a stool, being used, as a support platform, for reaching targets that are at heights between approximately 2 and 3 metres (6.6 and 9.8 ft). The most common modern type is made with two separate ladders connected to each other at the upper end, where there is a platform with an area big enough to ...

3. Stool (seat) - Wikipedia

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   [1] [3] In the medieval period, seating consisted of benches, stools, and the very rare examples of throne-like chairs as an indication of status. The stools had two forms: the boarded [4] or Gothic [3] stool, a short bench with two board-like feet at the ends [3] and also the simple turned stool.

4. X-chair - Wikipedia

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   A type of folding chair with a frame like an X viewed from the front or the side originated in medieval Italy. Also known as a Savonarola or Dante chair in Italy , [ 1 ] or a Luther chair in Germany , the X-chair was a light and practical form that spread through Renaissance Europe .

5. Faldstool - Wikipedia

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   Faldstool displayed at Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy Reconstruction faldstool, folded and unfolded Ecclesiastical faldstool, 1400s-1500s. Faldstool (from the O.H. Ger. falden or falten, "to fold," and stuol, Mod. Ger. Stuhl, "stool"; from the medieval Latin faldistolium derived, through the old form fauesteuil, from the Mod. Fr. fauteuil) is a portable folding chair, used by a bishop when ...

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7. John H. Balsley - Wikipedia

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   John H. Balsley (May 29, 1823 – March 12, 1895) was a master carpenter and inventor, inventing a practical folding wooden stepladder and receiving the first U.S. patent issued for a safety stepladder in the year. He was born in Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania to George H. and Sarah (Shallenberger) Balsley. His father was also a ...