Re: Looking for inventor of coat rack

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (MeadowMan2) writes:

>There was a query....
>>who invented the coat rack
>
>Try...
>http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/n
>etahtml/search-bool.html&r=30&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=pall&s1='coat+rack'&OS="c

   Thing is, that will bring up a lot of particular designs, but not
necessarily the original one.  This question is deeper than it looks.  People
used to store clothers on hooks, or folded.  The coat hanger is actually a
pretty recent thing: one of the inventors (mighta been first, but maybe not)
was Thomas Jefferson, but hooks or pegs for clothing go back about as far as
you want to look.  As gus pointed out, the viual picture of "coat rack" a lot
of us form is a pole, often bentwood, with a bunch of hooks off it, but some
people use it for a series of simple hooks mounted on a board.