Cradle Gym
date: label: date made
content: ca 1942
name: label: maker
content: Eisel, Vernon G.
notes: label: Description
content: Vernon Gwynn Eisel (1900-1963), an independent inventor, devised a cradle gym for his infant daughters in the early 1940s, and gave this example to the Smithsonian in 1948.
label: Description
content: Ref: Vernon G. Eisel, “Infant Exerciser,” U.S. Patent 2,327,253 (August 17, 1943), assigned to Childhood Interests, Inc.
label: Description
content: “Free Inventor in ‘Big Story’ Case,” Newsday (June 28, 1957), p. 30.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-06499
label: catalog number
content: M-06499
label: accession number
content: 178678
label: patent number
content: 2,327,253
objectType: label: Object Name
content: infant exerciser
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 1/4 in x 6 3/4 in x 1 1/2 in; 41.275 cm x 17.145 cm x 3.81 cm