Cane
notes: label: Description
content: This cane was developed at the M.I.T. Sensory Aids Center, with support from the Northwest Foundation for the Blind. The "Hycor / Patent #3,669,133" inscription refers to Hycor, Inc., a defense firm established in Woburn, Ma., in 1967. Joseph Hyman (1929-1998), the inventor, was an engineer and founding president of Hycor.
label: Description
content: Ref: Joseph Hyman, “Collapsible Rod,” U.S. Patent 3,669,133 (June 13, 1972), assigned to Hycor, Inc.
label: Description
content: “Hycor Bucks Trend With A Profit,” Boston Globe (May 31, 1970), p. B1.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Disabilities
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine, Prostheses
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0119.09
label: patent number
content: 3,669,133
label: accession number
content: 1997.0119
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0119.09
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cane
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 109 cm x 2.6 cm; 42 29/32 in x 1 1/32 in