Sarah E. Goode

Sarah E. Goode
Patent issued to Sarah E. Goode for the cabinet bed
Born	1850 United States
Nationality	American
Occupation	Inventor Entrepreneur
Known for	First African American woman to receive a United States patent.

Sarah E. Goode was an entrepreneur and inventor. She was the first African American woman to receive a United States patent.^[1]

Goode was born in 1850 into slavery. She was freed after the American Civil War and proceeded to open a furniture store in Chicago, Illinois.^[2] She noticed that those who lived in apartments in the city had very little space for beds, so she invented a folding cabinet bed and received patent for it on July 14, 1885. When the cabinet bed was folded up it looked like a desk, including spaces for writing instruments and storage.^[1]

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  Second page of patent for Sarah E. Goode's cabinet bed

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Sarah Goode". Inventors. The Black Inventor On-Line Museum. 2011. http://www.blackinventor.com/pages/sarah-goode.html. Retrieved 13 November 2011. 
2. ^ "Sarah E. Goode". Inventors. http://www.csupomona.edu/~plin/inventors/goode.html. Retrieved 13 November 2011. 

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