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Eliphalet Whittlesey of Mullica, New Jersey invented a “Gardners’ Stool” that was assigned U.S. Patent 40,301 on October 13, 1863.
The Gardener’s Patent Locomotive Seat
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The Gardener’s Patent Locomotive Seat.
Patented, October, 1863.
The invention represented above, is designed to relieve a want long and seriously felt by Gardeners, Florists, Strawberry-pickers, &c., by furnishing an ever-ready support in all cases where their hands need to be employed on or near the ground.
Its chief advantages are:
Simplicity. It consists only of a malleable iron foot-piece with an oblique standard and seat of wood, all (weighing about one pound), firmly and quickly attached to the foot by two straps.
Locomotion. It enables the wearer to walk about at pleasure (the stool constantly attending him), with both hands free for other purposes.
Adaptation. It can be used between the thickest rows, or wherever the wearer can set his foot.
This stool when sold, will be delivered to the Express at Hammonton, New Jersey, on receipt of the price, $1.00.
Orders solicited by
E. WHITTLESEY,
Patentee and Manufacturer, Hammonton, Atlantic Co., New Jersey.
Quinn, Pr. 3d & Market Phila.
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Library of Congress Data
Title
The gardener’s patent locomotive seat … E. Whittlesey. Patentee and manufacturer … Philadelphia Quinn, Pr. 3d & Market St. [1863?].
Contributor Names
Whittlesey, E.
Created / Published
Philadelphia, 1863.
Notes
Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 158, Folder 22.
Subjects
Advertisements–Pennsylvania–Philadelphia
United States–Pennsylvania–Philadelphia.
Medium
1 p.; 30 x 20 cm.
Call Number
Portfolio 158, Folder 22
Part of
Broadsides, leaflets, and pamphlets from America and Europe
Digital ID
rbpe 15802200 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbpe.15802200
Part of…
American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
Rare Book and Special Collections Division
American Memory
Format
Books
Contributors
Whittlesey, E.
Dates
1863
Location
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
United States
Language
English
Subjects
Advertisements
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
United States
References
Whittlesey, Eliphalet. “The Gardener’s Patent Locomotive Seat. Philadelphia, 1863”. Image. United States Library of Congress. Accessed April 15, 2016.
Whittlesey, Eliphalet. “Gardeners’ Stool”. United States Patent and Trademark Office. Accessed April 15, 2016.