US Patent No. 1319546 Parachute by W.W. Whaley Patented October 21 1919 Size:36x24 his likeness fixed in the

his likeness fixed in the years when he thundered against secession from the Senate floor and the Union still believed itself salvageable

The Eastman Pipe Patent — a Gentlemans Vice 189 belongs to the smokehouse era of design — when the act of lighting a cigar carried enough cultural weight to justify a patent application and a draftsman's afternoon

Andrew Johnson and Others

regional historical societies

the cigar still lit

US Patent No. 1319546 Parachute by W.W. Whaley Patented October 21 1919 Size:36x24 his likeness fixed in theUs Patent No. 1319546 Parachute by Ww Whaley Patented October 21 1919 Whaley's filing arrives in the strange dawn after the Great War, when silk canopies were still being argued into existence and a jumper's life hung on the geometry of shroud lines. The schematic maps every gore and harness loop with the patience of a man who knew the math had to hold at terminal velocity. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives