Crutch
name: label: maker
content: Thomas Fetterman, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Thomas Fetterman (b. 1945) was struck with polio in 1953 when he was eight years old, received a BFA in Design from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia in 1968, and turned his attention to industrial designs. In 2000 he teamed up with TiSport, a firm in Kennewick, Washington, that made titanium and aluminum wheelchairs. This titanium forearm crutch has a “Lifestix” inscription.
label: Description
content: Ref: Thomas Fetterman, “Crutch Tip,” U.S. Patent 4,881,564 (Nov. 21, 1989).
label: Description
content: Thomas Fetterman, “Slip-Resistant Crutch Tip,” U.S. Patent 5,178,176 (Jan. 12, 1993).
label: Description
content: “Hippie inventor created Clinton’s sleek crutches,” The Arizona Republic (May 7, 1997), pp. A21-A22.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Thomas Fetterman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2004.0289.01
label: accession number
content: 2004.0289
label: catalog number
content: 2004.0289.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Crutch
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: titanium (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: nylon (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 101.2 cm x 2.25 cm; 39 27/32 in x 7/8 in