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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. [24][25] Judy W. Reed’s dough roller was the third, patented in 1884 ...
A bed is an item of furniture that is used as a place to sleep, rest, and relax. [1][2] Most modern beds consist of a soft, cushioned mattress on a bed frame. The mattress rests either on a solid base, often wood slats, or a sprung base. Many beds include a box spring inner-sprung base, which is a large mattress-sized box containing wood and ...
Tyler Howe was born on August 11, 1800, [1] [2] to Elijah and Frances ( née Bemis) [3] [4] [a] Howe in Spencer, Massachusetts. [1] He was the fifth of 10 children, [b] and the fifth-eldest son. His father was a farmer who spent many hours improving his own farm equipment. [1] Tyler was born in their family's one-room farmhouse, [2] known as ...
Mattress. Two-sided, innerspring pillow-top mattress on box-spring foundation with a woven damask cover also called a mattress sheet. A mattress is a large, usually rectangular pad for supporting a lying person. It is designed to be used as a bed, or on a bed frame as part of a bed. Mattresses may consist of a quilted or similarly fastened case ...
Since the first model several other variations and designs have been created, including: sideways-mounted Murphy beds, Murphy bunk beds, and solutions that include other functions. Murphy beds exist with tables or desks that fold down when the bed is folded up, and there are also models with sofas and shelving solutions.
A waterbed, water mattress, or flotation mattress is a bed or mattress filled with water. Waterbeds intended for medical therapies appear in various reports through the 19th century. The modern version, invented in San Francisco and patented in 1971, became a popular consumer item in the United States through the 1980s with up to 20% of the ...
A bed frame[1] or bedstead[2] is the part of a bed used to position the bed base, the flat part which in turn directly supports the mattress (es). The frame may also stop the mattress from sliding sideways, and it may include means of supporting a canopy above. There are several types of Bed Frames [3] found around the globe.
The Sumerian bed was a wooden bed on a wooden frame. The bed frame was a tall head-board decorated with pictures of birds and flowers. [9] Sometimes the bed's leg would be inlaid with precious metals and shaped to look like animal's paws. [2] Some Akkadian beds had ox-hoof feet. [6]