Crutch

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Patent Model Crutch
From the online exhibition 'Whatever Happened to Polio?'

Object Details

Description

Patent model for Joshua Whittemore, “Improvement in Crutches,” U.S. Patent 36,743 (Oct. 21, 1862). Joshua Whittemore (b. 1814) was a Bostonian who moved to South Reading (now Wakefield) in 1849, lost a leg in a railroad accident, and designed a spring crutch. He displayed a patent elastic crutch at the 1874 exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association and took home a bronze medal.

Location

Currently not on view

Credit Line

Gift of The American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine thru Mr. Creston Herold

Date made

1862

ID Number

MG.309032.06

accession number

309032

catalog number

1974.309032.06

accession number

1974.309032

patent number

36,743

Object Name

Crutch, Patent Model

crutch, patent model

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

Place Made

United States: Massachusetts, Wakefield

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Medicine and Science: Medicine

Health & Medicine

Disabilities

Data Source

National Museum of American History

Subject

Disabilities

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a0-e1f7-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record ID

nmah_211015