Ice Skates Patent Model by Elisha Foote
date: label: Date made
content: 1864
label: associated dates
content: 1978 03 / 1978 03
name: label: maker
content: Foote, Elisha
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Pair of steel ice skates with a single runner turned up at the front and attachments for the back and ball of foot. The ball plate has a circular steel plate nailed onto to a brass base with screwed on, adjustable clamps on either side. The back attachment is circular brass, hollow with two up-turned screws on either side. The original patent tag reads, "No. 45148 [/] 1864 [/] Elisha Foote [/] Skate [/] patented Nov 22nd [/] 1864."
label: Description (Brief)
content: Elisha Foote was born in Massachusetts and studied law in Johnstown, New York. He became a patent attorney and contributed several valuable patents over the years. In 1868 he became the eleventh Commissioner of Patents.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Ice Skating
label: level of sport
content: recreational
label: web subject
content: Patent Models
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
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content: Patent Models
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0195.01
label: patent number
content: 45148
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0195.01
label: accession number
content: 1979.0195
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Ice Skate Patent Model
label: Object Name
content: ice skates, patent model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (tag material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (tag material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 3 in x 8 3/4 in; 3.175 cm x 7.62 cm x 22.225 cm