Crutch, patent model
Crutch, patent model
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- Description
- Joshua Whittemore (b. 1814) was a Bostonian who moved to South Reading (now Wakefield) in 1849, lost a leg in a railroad accident, designed a spring crutch, and submitted this model with his patent application. Whittemore displayed a patent elastic crutch at the 1874 exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association and took home a bronze medal.
- Ref: Joshua Whittemore, “Improvement in Crutches,” U.S. Patent 36,743 (Oct. 21, 1862).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Crutch, Patent Model
- crutch, patent model
- Date made
- 1862
- Place Made
- United States: Massachusetts, Wakefield
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- fabric (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 1/4 in x 25 3/8 in x 5 in; 3.175 cm x 64.4525 cm x 12.7 cm
- overall: 25 in x 5 in; 63.5 cm x 12.7 cm
- ID Number
- MG.309032.06
- accession number
- 309032
- catalog number
- 1974.309032.06
- accession number
- 1974.309032
- patent number
- 36,743
- Credit Line
- Gift of The American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine thru Mr. Creston Herold
- subject
- Disabilities
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- Health & Medicine
- Disabilities
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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