Coat Wooden Hanger

Some historians believe President Thomas Jefferson invented a forerunner of the wood coat hanger. However, today's most used coat wood hanger,such as coat wooden hanger, the shoulder-shaped wire hanger, was inspired by a coat hook that was invented in 1869 by O. A. North of New Britain, Connecticut. An employee of the Timberlake Wire and Novelty Company, Albert J. Parkhouse of Jackson, Michigan has also been credited with the invention, as has Christopher Cann in 1876 as an engineering student at Boston University.