Results: Who Was Sarah E. Good?
Sarah E. Goode was born into slavery in 1850. She was an inventor and entrepreneur and one of the first African American women to be granted a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, for her invention of a folding cabinet bed in 1885. She died in 1905.
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Her folding bed cabinet was a space saving design that folded into a roll top desk with storage compartments. Goode's invention was inspired by the needs of Chicago's working‑class apartment dwellers, with space challenges. Have you ever seen an antique cabinet bed?
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She and her husband Archibald Goode ran a furniture store in Chicago, where she met customers' space challenges firsthand. Have you ever lived in a small apartment?
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