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Thomas Elkins (1818 – August 10, 1900) [1] was an African-American dentist, abolitionist, surgeon, pharmacist, and inventor.He lived in Albany, New York, for most of his life, but travelled during his service as the medical examiner of the 54th and 55th Massachusetts infantries and visited Liberia.
It is a two-story, frame pattern book house, built in 1909. Also on the property is a contributing frame garage and slate sidewalk. It was the home of Calvin A. Buffington, who patented a folding chair design that he manufactured in Berkshire until 1926.
On July 7, 1911, Nathaniel Alexander patented a folding chair [6] whose main innovation was including a book rest. [7] In 1947, Fredric Arnold created the first aluminum folding chair with fabric strapping for the seat and back. By 1957, the Fredric Arnold Company of Brooklyn, New York, was manufacturing more than 14,000 chairs per day.
Awarded the first Presidential Endowed Chair at Clemson University in honor of his accomplishments Gipson, Mack: 1931–1995 Geologist: First Black man to receive a Ph.D. in Geology Goode, Sarah E. 1855–1905 Inventor Folding "cabinet-bed", forerunner of the Murphy bed; first African-American woman to receive a patent in the United States [83 ...
The chair was the first compactly stackable chair invented, and is able to stack 40 chairs 4 feet (120 cm) high. ... The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York [36 ...
The curule chair was originally very similar in form to the modern folding chair, but eventually received a good deal of ornament. [3] The most famous of the very few chairs which have come down from a remote antiquity is the reputed Chair of Saint Peter in St Peter's Basilica at Rome.
"Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live," by New Yorker articles editor Susan Morrison (to be published February 18 by Random House), is a biography of late-night comedy producer Lorne ...
Patent issued to Sarah E. Goode for the folding bed cabinet Born in 1855 in Toledo , Ohio to Oliver and Harriet (Kaufman) Jacobs, Goode was originally named Sarah Elisabeth Jacobs. [ 2 ] When she was young, her father worked as a waiter, and her mother kept the house. [ 3 ]